Movie

The Angelic Conversation

★ 5.2/10 · 26 votes 1987 1h 18m Released

Drama

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.”

Cast

Judi Dench (voice) P Paul Reynolds P Philip Williamson D Dave Baby T Timothy Burke S Simon Costin