Not RatedThe Angelic Conversation

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Play Time: 78 mins
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The Angelic Conversation

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The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”

Status: Released (1985-02-15)
Screen:William Shakespeare
Productions: BFI, Channel 4 Television
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Spoken Languages: English
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Paul Reynolds and Philip Williamson reminded me of silent film actors in this really quite poignant tale of homosexual longing, lust and pure love all complemented by a Shakesperian narrative consisting of fourteen of his sonnets read, emotively and vibrantly, by Judi Dench. The imag ....

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