5.2 / 10
(23 votes)
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.”
United Kingdom
Drama
78 minutes
1985
Derek Jarman
BFI,
Channel 4 Television
2016
7.2
2018
4.0
1968
4.8
1995
6.3
2002
6.8
2001
7.0
2017
4.5
2019
5.1
1993
7.2
2021
10.0
2024
8.0
2018
4.9
2011
0.0
2013
0.0
2005
6.1
1999
7.2
2002
7.4
2006
6.3
2004
5.9
2009
0.0