Before seeing Edward II the soap-opera/TV Relationship through the act of holding hands. Of camp queens trilling across the sitcom stages or else the sanitised soap-opera/TV movie gays who consummate their frigid The media deluge of Will and Grace-type saccharine images, I had only a televisual diet Up in a tough, provincial town in Northern Ireland (a place famous for its intolerance of religious difference let alone sexualĭifference) I was wracked with what I now realize was a stereotypical sense of isolation and self-loathing. Yet unlike other 18 year-olds (or so it seemed to me) I was also wrestling with issues of my own sexuality. Like other 18 year-olds I was slogging through soul-destroying A-Level When my life was at one of its lowest points ever. Who was Derek Jarman? Why had I never seen any of his films before? And, most importantly, where can I get videoĮdward II had a huge effect upon me at a time After the film I was fired up withĮxcitement. Gaveston of France but I was not prepared for Jarman’s interpretation of this play. Problems which King Edward experienced in maintaining a ‘relationship’ with Piers I suspected that the film was based upon the Marlowe play of the same name which depicted the Viewing experiences where I became spellbound by a film that I hadn’t intended to watch in the first place and didn’t Edward II sticks in my memory as one of those remarkable I chanced upon it, quite by accident, on a dreary Sunday night I was 18 when I saw Edward II – my first Derek Jarman film.
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