A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
Derek Jarman
Director, Writer
Tilda Swinton
Madonna/Voice Overs
Johnny Mills
Lover
Philip MacDonald
Joseph
Pete Lee-Wilson
Devil
Spencer Leigh
Mary Magdalene / Adam
Jody Graber
Young Boy
Roger Cook
Christ
Kevin Collins
Lover
Dawn Archibald
Nature Spirit
My Brother the Devil64%
TalhotBlond63%
The Good Neighbor65%
Girl in the Box67%
Hellion58%
Heatwave62%
Pimp62%
The Safety of Objects65%
La joven69%
Adopt a Highway66%
Here64%
The Pumpkin Eater67%
O.G.59%
Holy Lands61%
Eleanor the Great69%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
Kiss of the Spider Woman69%
Flow77%
Rose Plays Julie58%
Beast62%
