Jubilee 18
Saturday 18th November, 8.30pm (T)
Director: Derek Jarman, Feature, 100 minutes, UK, 2005.
Credited as being THE British punk film, Jubilee is a jewel of a movie that stunned, disgusted and excited critics at the time of its release. Made as a response to the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, it is a radical anti-monarchy, anti-establishment film that stars some of the UK’s best known music stars from the era.
A young Toyah Wilcox rubs shoulders with Adam Ant, alongside Jenny Runacre and Richard O’Brien (Rocky Horror Picture Show). Runacre stars as Queen Elizabeth 1, who travels through time to the modern age where the world is populated by violent punk girls who are tough and aren’t afraid to show it.
This clever satire on British society combines punk idealism and the less wholesome aspects of society with that of England’s Golden Age. The result is a film that is as compelling as it is frank and uncompromising.
