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Blue appears to be quite a fashionable name for movies this season; both Krsysztof Kieslowski and Derek Jarman have called their latest movies that. Kieslowski's film has attracted more attention, possibly because of Juliette Binoche's swan neck. Jarman's film does not seduce the spectator with a slow does not seduce the spectator with a slow strip-tease; from the beginning, it presents itself naked, refusing to be idealized or objectified. It is, in this sense, a deeper shade of blue...
...title adequately describes Jarman's film. Challenging notions of what cinema is, this beautiful and eerie masterpiece consists of voices and music resounding over 76 minutes of blue screen. The only visual action is that produced by your own eyes, which fill the screen with lines, shadows and patches of light...
...Blue" is not an anecdotal film, it is a disturbing experience. Jarman is a painter and director associated with the beautiful and strinking visual images in films like "The Last of England," "Caravaggio," and "Wittgenstein" (which was recently shown at the Harvard Film Archives). He has stripped his work to a bare minimum. "In the pandemonium of image," he states at one point, "I present you with the universal door of blue...
This universal door opens into a painful reality. Suffering from AIDS and faced with the cruel absurdity of losing his eyesight, Jarman has been reduced to perceiving shadows moving in a sea of blue. Visually, the film forces the viewer to asume the director's perspective...
...words of the film are those of Jarman, who recounts his experiences while being treated with DHPG--an experimental drug used on people with AIDS--as an out-patient in a London clinic. Reduced to waiting, he takes to observing those around him. In chilling detail, Jarman describes the other patients in the hospital who are also slowly going blind. An old man stumbles to a chair and despairs at the impossibility of ver reading newspaper. Lives are restructured around treatment whose side effects are a mortal disease in themselves. Each person is assigned a number, ostensibly in order...