EDWARD THE SECOND (1991)

DEREK JARMAN

Drama LGBTQI+Art House Literary Classics 10th - 19th Centuries Recommended

Cast

STEVEN WADDINGTON ANDREW TIERNAN TILDA SWINTON PHILLIP MARLOWE

Plot

A superb screen modern dress adaptation of Marlowe's classic story of forbidden love and naked ambition. After King Edward bestows titles on a shifty commoner, his embittered and neglected wife conspires with an ambitious courtier to provoke a bloody civil war. Jarman is in top anti-Establishment form.