Edward II 1991 123movies

Watch: Edward II 1991 123movies, Full Movie Online – In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favor in bed even to wield political influence – the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon..
Plot: England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
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	6.8/10 Votes: 2,826
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a soulful transposition to exclaim Jarman’s cri de coeur
Wearing his gay-right crusading heart on his sleeve, Derek Jarman’s antepenultimate work EDWARD II is a post-modern interpretation of Christopher Marlowe’s play about the eponymous Plantagenet sovereign (Waddington, a celluloid debutant), whose partiality towards his male lover Piers Gaveston (newcomer Tiernan), raises Cain in the court and prompts his wife Queen Isabella (Swinton), in league with Lord Mortimer (Terry), to usurp his throne.

Shot in Jarman’s characteristic sparse, claustrophobic setting which avails itself of minimal indoor lighting and cherry-picked iconography to great effect (striking use of refraction, a quasi-black-box theater intimacy, etc.), EDWARD II radically strews anachronistic items into its theatrical foreground: a slick modern dance, characters sporting contemporary costumes and its trimmings (business suits for the members of the court and for Queen Isabella, a Hermes bag accompanies her entrance), brandishing modern weapons, notably a band of rioting gay right activists constitutes the king’s army, Jarman has economically, but also impressively warps its source play’s temporality and gives its story an exigency and immediacy that elicits strong topicality, when cruelty is wantonly lashed out at the beleaguered gay lovers.

Among the cast, every single one of the main cast robustly sinks his or her teeth into Marlowe’s florid wording, a savage-looking Tiernan flouts the traditional aesthetics of a rakish lotus eater and brings about a fierce ugliness that contests for a basic human right which goes beyond its often beautified physicality and narcissism (a self-seeking whippersnapper still has his inviolable right to love someone of his own sex); both Swinton and Terry grandly chew the scenery of lofty operatics, but in a commendable way which resoundingly adds the dramatic tension and heft of their sinister collusion, and by comparison Waddington, looks unfavorably bland and wishy-washy in a role who pluckily hazards his monarchial reign in favor of one single mortal that he holds dearest.

As Annie Lennox’s belts out “EV’RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE” in her cameo appearance, Jarman’s EDWARD II is a soulful transposition to exclaim his cri de coeur, and steeped in his sui generis idiom that sublimes a tenacious beauty out of its rough-hewn components, but with a proviso that an acquired taste is requisite.

Not worth watching
I should start off by mentioning that Edward II is a very strange movie. All the sets look the same, most of the actors aren’t young and glamorous, and everyone speaks Elizabethan English even though it takes place in 1991.

There were times that I felt I just wasn’t “getting” it. But after a while I realized I was getting it — it’s just that I wasn’t offered very much to begin with.

This movie is so completely visually dull with its dirt floors and bare concrete walls (did I mention this takes place in 1991?) that I felt my eyes getting heavy. Would I have missed much if I had closed them? Well, a couple of softcore man-on-man sex scenes (did I mention that the actors aren’t young and glamorous?) but other than that, looking at the inside of my eyelids wouldn’t have been much less interesting.

Edward II’s script is also quite lacking. I don’t know if this is the case with the play (the only Marlowe play I’ve ever actually read is Dr. Faust) but in any case, I see no sense in making a movie from the script. I can’t imagine someone reading the script and saying, “this looks good.” The characters are all so coldly obsessed with whining about their own petty problems that there’s no way someone could really care about them. Even their bratty children have their own agendas. Anytime someone was killed, I wasn’t sure whether to be glad a character I hated was gone, or to be unhappy that another character I also hated had succeeded.

My only praise for this movie is the acting. Given what these actors had to work with, I think they made a good attempt. Unfortunately, this was not enough to make this particular movie worth watching.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 27 min (87 min)
Budget 1003575
Revenue 706131
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Director Derek Jarman
Writer Christopher Marlowe, Derek Jarman, Stephen McBride
Actors Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan
Country United Kingdom, Japan
Awards 5 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Bucks Laboratories, London, UK
Film Length 2,490 m (1993) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm