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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381125726
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Sales Rank: 30272
MPN: D1257D
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Description:
The King of England finds his throne in peril when he brings his lover, Gaveston, enraging the current queen who goes on a rampage of vengeance.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
An avant-garde film that won't appeal to all tastes, Derek Jarman's "Edward II" takes Christopher Marlowe's Shakespearean-era play and imbues it with a modern sensibility. The minimal sets look as though they were thrown together in an abandoned warehouse or airplane hangar, and successfully convey a stifling atmosphere of labyrinthine darkness, decadence, and murder most foul.
As Edward II, Steven Waddington does what he can with a role that seems to be seriously underwritten. Not ... Read More
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I wanted to see this movie because it stars Tilda Swinton, art movie goddess of great talent and beauty. Film is about King Edward II who upon his father's death and inheritance to power invites from exile his lover, Galveston. Court is appalled that Galvaston is all that Edward II can think about and that Edward does not care that his lover is cruel, uncaring and greedy and steals money from the treasury. Edward's wife and Queen is rejected upon Galveston's arrival and finds herself on the sideline ... Read More
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"Edward II"
Modern Marlowe
Amos Lassen
The Derek Jarman film version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, "Edward II" is a visual feast. Jarman dresses his characters in modern costumes and has them perform against a modern setting. Edward Plantagenet tells his power hungry nobility his perfect excuse for taking his male lover, Piers Gaveston, to the court and that is because his wife, the French princess Isabel, is not acceptable to his subjects. Gaveston uses ... Read More
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As playwright Christopher Marlowe is considered to be the first Elizabethan Tragedian, and therefore pioneer to the up and coming Shakespeare (see Shakespeare in Love for an excellent film treatment of this subject), the late Derek Jarman, Fellow of the British Film Institute for his lifelong contribution to British Cinema, can be viewed as a "pioneer" for filmmakers who dared to be unusual, visionary and quite controversial and unconventional in style and interpretation. Jarman's body of work is impressive, ... Read More
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This gorgeousy filmed (Ian Wilson) and costumed (Sandy Powell) adaptation of Marlowe's masterpiece is a curiosity. There are the anachronisms of sumptuous modern costumes for the leads - especially Tilda Swinton (runway-model manque) - and lavish yet pared-down sets that make you concentrate on the glorious words of Christopher Marlowe.
It is gory and violent, stunning and outrageous, sexually explicit, and very political and pro-gay activism.
Steven Waddington and Andrew Tiernan make ... Read More
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