
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
Leave your thoughts about The Last of England.
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisOne of the most emotionally shattering and formally inspired movies of the 1980s. |
| Filmcritic.comDavid BezansonI would say it's one of the worst films ever made, but that would make it sound more interesting than it actually is. |
| User ReviewMarco LChanged the way I looked at film, had never seen anything like it until then. |
| User ReviewMick HA visual treat, with one of the most well matched scores of any film I have seen - a fully immersive experience. |
| User ReviewAndrew RA unique vision of 80's England, culture, future and post-apocalyptic decay. Jarmans visual scope and construction of images is devastatingly powerful. |
| User ReviewTommaso dBest movie I've seen in 2008. Unique, it made me feel less lonely. |
| User ReviewThom BDerek Jarman's films are each unique, beautiful and jarring experinces. "The Last of England" is the best of an amzing lot by a grossly underappreciated filmmaker. R.I.P. |
| User ReviewWut SA stylistically sporadic film poetry depicting the violent subjective undercurrent of a radical-turned-intellectual (an elderly figure with pen & papers, narrating throughout the film) whose anger directs towards his country's constitution, rebuking its war decisions, economic structure, and social idealism as oppression responsible for national decay. As I interpreted it, the film is an exploitation of the movement's traumatic ineffectuality. The youths who exhibited violent resistances will find themselves in an irresolute void as time would reveal their tarnished cause. But all was not lost; what emerged for the radical veterans was an intense individualization derived from the intimate "way of life" they lived. And because of this unique dynamics between shame and distinctive splendor, the film times to times is able to match the solemnity of bleak masterpieces, despite its punk rock appearance. |
| User ReviewDavid DBeautiful, despairing non-narrative film showing a post-apocalyptic England as the inevitable result of Thatcher's reign. |
| User ReviewA RThis is one of those pure art films from which one can't expect things like linear narrative and engaging characters, etc. It does, however, convey a very clear theme of apocalypse and decay. It is a beautiful and terrifying collage of images that's wholly bewitching. Maybe you need to be on Jarman's wavelength to get it. |