Jubilee (1978) poster
1978 · jarman · punk · dystopia · avant-garde

Jubilee

Directed by Derek Jarman1h 46m1978
ElsewhereIMDb5.94kRT100%Metacritic79TMDB5.979
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured jarman / punk, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Our read · Jubilee (1978) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal jarman · punk · dystopia entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Derek Jarman's anarchic punk nightmare with time travel and cultural collapse.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 8attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditydrug usegraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if raw sex, drugs, violence, or experimental punk will alienate you.

If Jubilee is your film
The Last of England (1987)
same director's raw apocalyptic British vision
(if even more abstract style loses you)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
punk-adjacent dystopian youth violence and satire
(unless Kubrick's polish feels too controlled)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
raw punk scene energy and cultural provocation
(if Sex Pistols documentary tone bores)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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