Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 2 out of 5
Expression is only the vehicle for content ...
I felt deeply disappointed by the film, which is empty, irrelevant and self-indulgent.
A lot of scenes in the movie were well arranged, sometimes sensual, defiant or narcissistic. However those images are static, hardly fluid and unsuitable for the media of motion picture. The sentiment, so, maybe too, beautifully portrayed in one split second, died quickly into the next, because of director’’s incapability to let those images or characters evolve and grow. Above all there is no coherent message or even an idea in the movie, except the director’’s own erratic obsession of beauty, moments or desire. His self-centeredness is hardly engaging to me.
I can accept paintings to stress forms while defying meaning. But motion picture has one more dimension than paintings. Such waste of its expressiveness is a crime. After all, ideas are the most powerful and exciting, but not an idea of emptiness. Rated 3 out of 5
sebastiane
My copy of the Kino DVD is full screen and not letterboxed as advertised. Several seconds have been deleted from the perhaps too long slow motion sequence with frolicking bathers - but these seconds are important and Jarman captured a natural and realistic event knowing full well what he was doing . I acquired the DVD to replace my old VHS version and while it is superior in many ways, I will keep the video as the true version and the one I saw originally on the movie screen.
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