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John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton

A year before director Derek Jarman succumbed fully to AIDS, he made his last film. In Blue, the color blue is all there is to see as Jarman tries to bring the audience into his vision-impaired world.... read more read more... Jarman offers his insights on life, love, disease, the meaning of art, and the symbology of the color blue over a blue screen. Actors, including Tilda Swinton and John Quentin, also read from Jarman's journals and poetry. ~ John Voorhees, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 15 min.

Directed by: Derek Jarman

Release Date: December 3, 1993

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003

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  • matertenebraum
    February 10, 2011
    matertenebraum
    Jarman's masterpiece was always going to attract a lazy criticism from the mainstream mindset: pretentious, trendy, self-indulgent etc.

    But to dismiss it out of hand as no better than a first year art student's project is to fail to appreciate the rich narrative.

    The coldness o... read moref the blue focusses the mind on what Jarman has to tell us, perhaps far better than any other colour would've done. We cannot help but listen, and take in one very gifted man's grim yet positive perspective on gay life, and a slow death through AIDS.

    Brian Eno's musical score is stark and haunting, with passages of female vocal harmony that are strongly influenced by contempory sacred music from Eastern Europe.

    Watch this film with an open mind: Force yourself to keep staring into the blue yonder, and it will empower you with a new level of vision and perspective.
  • gator681
    January 27, 2010
    gator681
    With his final movie "Blue", Derek Jarman again takes an intriguing angle, again proving how visual the medium of film is, by using an empty blue screen for its entire running time to emulate his blindness caused by AIDS which would claim his life in 1994. As the Washington Post... read more pointed out at the time, he had lost his sight, but not his vision with his personal testament to the world around him that is alternately sad, sardonic and angry, mourning his friends who had already died, much too numerous. And it is sad how in Derek Jarman, we lost a talented iconoclastic filmmaker long before his time.

    One of the particular details Jarman focuses on is the color blue and all of its shades which normally we would never think about. And then you have the blues, the saddest of music. In the present day, the Blue Lanterns of DC Comics encompass hope.
  • SonnyLighstrome
    January 17, 2008
    SonnyLighstrome
    A very good movie, but not for everyone as it is mostly a blue screen with various voice overs. The story behind this movie makes it must view material alone.

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Anton Bitel
August 1, 2007
Anton Bitel, Film4

Derek Jarman's filmic essay on his own blindness and impending death is a monochromatic elegy to a director's loss of vision. Full Review

Stephen Holden
May 20, 2003
Stephen Holden, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
July 17, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Christopher Null
January 27, 2004
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

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Susan Tavernetti
May 20, 2003
Susan Tavernetti, Palo Alto Weekly

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Rich Cline
March 10, 2011
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

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May 24, 2003
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January 9, 2002
Movieline

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