My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose - Jubilee (1977) Derek Jarman

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Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of proto-Goths and punk rockers.

In Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth I is transported forward in time by the occultist John Dee through the spirit guide Ariel (a character from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Queen Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, killed in an arbitrary mugging, and Elizabeth I moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the activities of a group of sporadic nihilists called Amyl Nitrate (Jordan), Bod (Jenny Runacre), Chaos (Hermine Demoriane), Crabs (Nell Campbell), and Mad (Toyah Willcox).

The film is heavily influenced by the 1970s punk aesthetic in its style and presentation. Shot in grainy colour it is largely plotless, episodic, untidy, confrontational, often incoherent and noisily anti-establishment and anti-royalty (Buckingham Palace has become a recording studio run by a seedy music producer named Borgia Ginz).

Numerous punk icons appear in the film including Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), Toyah Willcox, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), Adam Ant, Hermine Demoriane and Wayne County. It features performances by Wayne County and Adam and the Ants. There are also cameo appearances by The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The film was scored by Brian Eno.

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[webelongtoelvis]

i like the fact he's just laid there on the mud..

[AnthonyMarkT]

yeah! I was enjoying the voice.

[TheRhpsgirl]

wait.... no thats not her, she's the one in the middle

[TheRhpsgirl]

@artc1 yup, thats her

[artc1]

....was that Columbia for Rocky Horror @ 0:02 ? It looked and sounded like her....but i think she would be older looking here. I forget when Rocky Horror was made but i do think that that's her. SOMEONE TELL ME!

[fergusil]

@TheNEWfilmfanatic99 ps the blond guy lying in bed singing went on to star in chariots of fire but later died of aids sometime in the early 90s as did the director of this film derek jarman.

[fergusil]

@TheNEWfilmfanatic99 no-thats toyah willcox.she was a big popstar in the early80s about 4yrs after this film was made.

[LeCrosse]

@swinnbar - Toyah Wilcox

[UnrealHel]

... Charlie Andrews.

[TheNEWfilmfanatic99]

Is the woman at the beginning who said 'Dial 999' from the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

[GingerEckley818]

This movie is trippy.

[charisfulone]

Adam you are just so dam yummy I could eat you with both hands!!!