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Jubilee (film)

Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Jenny Runacre[?], Nell Campbell[?] (Little Nell), Toyah Willcox, Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), and Hermine Demoriane[?].

In the film Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time by John Dee through the spirit guide Ariel to the shattered Britain ruled by Elizabeth II. The 1970s queen is dead, killed in a arbitary mugging, and the historical queen moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the activites of a group of sporadic anachists called Amyl Nitrate, Bod, Chaos, Crabs, Mad and similar.

The film is clearly Jarman's but is heavily influenced by the 1970s punk ethic in its style. Shot in grainy colour the film is largely plotless, episodic, untidy, confrontational, often incoherent and noisily anti-establishment and anti-royalty - Buckingham Palace is a recording studio run by a man named Borgia Ginz.



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