BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave
718.636.4100
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Jubilee
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Wednesday Nov 26, 2008 (4:30, 6:50 & 9:15pm)
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- Price
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$11
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In Derek Jarman's punk-tattooed tour de force, Jubliee, Queen Elizabeth is transported 400 years beyond her epoch to spy a police-state England overrun with sex, violence, and — most atrocious — selling out. A stage-designer turned director, Jarman confronts England's neat, beauty-is-truth past with a bizarre future-vision that orbits around an antiestablishment girl gang. Besides several brutal scenes that are 200-proof visceral, the UK's first punk movie assaults the viewer with inverted gender roles, ravaged urban landscapes, and sloganeered nods to the country's cultural history, from Shakespeare to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Naturally, the supporting talent is legendary: Brian Eno delivers his first original score and counterculture idols like Adam Ant, Wayne County, and Toyah Willcox make attention-snatching appearances.
