JARMAN ON JUBILEE

The World Film Festival of Bangkok 2008 will show JUBILEE (1977, Derek Jarman). So I think I should post what Derek Jarman said about JUBILEE here. He said it in his interview with Paul Wells. Thanks to Sonthaya Subyen for giving me a copy of this interview.

“On the surface JUBILEE was a punk film made in the mid-70s. One part of JUBILEE, though, was a study of violence with role reversal, for example, traditional scenes of violence in the cinema – with ‘ketchup’ and things like that – but perpetrated by a gang of young women. Because it was unpleasant and most violence in the cinema is titillating, it was seen to be more violent than any film that you could imagine. Also, of course, the violence in this film, was on decidedly British streets. The odd thing about JUBILEE is that an awful lot came true. It was a fantasy when I made it. The fact that churches did become discos; the fact that Adam Ant was a complete unknown and did become a star; and the fact that the sanitised ‘County’ England where everyone had sold out did become Margaret Thatcher’s Great Britain a year or two later was the oddest thing. When the film played in 1985 and after, it was a very different film to the one I had made. It seemed a direct assault on a tangible reality.”

For more on JUBILEE, you can read
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/30/jubilee.html

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This is my comment in World Film Festival of Bangkok’s blog:
http://worldfilmbkk.blogspot.com/2008/10/6_14.html

I'm very glad to see that Apaporn Plungsirisoontorn has made a new film called LA VIE EN ROSE. I would like to see it, because I like her earlier works called REPEATING DRAMATIC and APIWAT very much.