The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”

• DirectorDerek Jarman
• Release28 February 1987
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 18m
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  5.2
  23 reviews
• Productions

  BFI, Channel 4 Television