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Edward II
The 1592 play, written by maverick playwright Christopher Marlowe, becomes, in Jarmand’s characteristically stripped-down adaptation, a scathing commentary on the British society of his time—reveling in artificiality and peppered with shameless anachronisms. This postmodern provocation, starring Steven Waddington as the ill-fated king and Tilda Swinton as his wife, was hailed as both “Jarman’s angriest film” and “sensitive, intelligent, and mature.” In response to the curtailment of LGBT rights, Jarman emphasizes Edward’s homosexuality in this electrifying medieval tragedy, convinced that in the reactionary Britain of the early 1990s, a “gay love story” could only be filmed by “desecrating a dusty old play.” (N.Y.)