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The Garden — official trailer
What is The Garden about?
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
The Garden is a 1990 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and produced by James Mackay for Basilisk Communications, in association with Channel 4, British Screen, and ZDF. The film is loosely based on the story of Christ's crucifixion, except the figure of Christ is replaced with a gay male couple. The film has been seen as an allegory of the suffering gays were going through during the AIDS crisis and their ostracism by most of society. The film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Where can you watch The Garden?
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What does the cinematography of The Garden look like?
Sampled across 61 frames, the coverage of The Garden leans on medium shots (28% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Derek Jarman keeps 44% of it in naturalistic light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 59% of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Garden?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Garden (1990) are #322f2b, #0a0908, #8c8d8d, #2a160f, #f8f7f5, #abada9 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#322f2b#0a0908#8c8d8d#2a160f#f8f7f5#abada9
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