The Garden
5.5
88 minutes
9/6/1990
Overview
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.
Cast List
Tilda Swinton
as Madonna/Voice Overs
Johnny Mills
as Lover
Philip MacDonald
as Joseph
Pete Lee-Wilson
as Devil
Spencer Leigh
as Mary Magdalene / Adam
Jody Graber
as Young Boy
Roger Cook
as Christ
Kevin Collins
as Lover
Dawn Archibald
as Nature Spirit
Milo Bell
as Cast Member
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Old Man at Sauna
Michael Gough
as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna
Maribelle La Manchega
as Spanish Dancer
Jessica Martin
as Singer
Jack Birkett
as Pontius (Orlando)
Leslie Randall
as Old Man at Sauna
Mike Tezcan
as Policeman
Matthew Wilde
as Policeman
Stephen McBride
as Narrator (voice)
Yolande Brener
as Eve
Derek Jarman
as Himself