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Equally rich in visual presentation and violence, experimental director Derek Jarman's unusual look at British punk rock culture takes a bizarre jaunt through time, following the transportation of Que...( read more 
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MCT:June 30, 2008
Queen Elizabeth asks her court alchemist to show her a vision of England in the future, and the alchemist summons a angle/spirit guide(played by Adam Ant) who transports her to London 400 years into the future where it is a post apacalyptic wasteland. The story then follows a group of nihilistic girl punks who all get lengthy monologues(as does almost every character) on British history, art, sex, love, the music industry, anarchy, God, the end of western civilization etc, and their dealings with a mass media mogul who virtually controls the city, sadistic fascist police, and each other. All of the dialogue between the Queen, her alchemist, and the spirit is all in poetic verse, while all of the future talking is mostly cockney sloganeering which was so pretentious in the first couple of scenes I almost turned it off. However it really picked up after about the first fifteen minutes and you barely notice it. It's not really a film about punk so much as it is a film about the breakdown of civilization, which uses the punk scene as vehicle for the metaphor. It was actually a lot better than I thought it would be, I definitely recommend it for those of you interested in this sort of thing. Recording legend Brian Eno also does the score, and if that doesn't sweeten to pot for your to watch this, nothing will. Jarman has had many successes since, but none this vital, at least not for me.
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MCT:June 22, 2008I have to admit that my four and a half stars are kinda forced. I like the idea of this movie much more than I actually like this movie. Some of the acting is actually very atrocious. The musical performance are really good and where else will you find The Slits as a street gang. I include this in my favorites because the soundtrack is awesome and it grows on me more and more with repeat viewings.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
overall this was good but there were aspects of it i couldnt stand, like whenever i saw Mad... ew. but Amyl, oh deary, total babe lol. i love her. interesting movie, not the only kind of punk keep in mind. SLC Punk is an equivalent. with the exception of having a freakin plot.
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MCT:May 5, 2008A literary sci-fi travel into the world of past and future, of satire antiquated and tongue bastard. I thought that this film, like many like this, even the comic V for Vendetta had a very pessimistic optimism or nihilism about their nation, about its plight and I found it interesting in seeing how the Britons thought of their nation being the way it is. The outlook seen here is so varied, it almost means that it is at a crossroads, a path to choose or a path to skip or a path stepped mistakenly. Wonderful scenes and wondrous acting might I add.
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MCT:February 25, 2008Anyone interested in British punk should watch this. Jubilee features some of the leader figures of British Punk including Adam Ant, Jordan, Little Nell, Toyah Wilcox, Wayne County, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Slits. Bizarre, violent and weird Jubilee takes Queen Elizabeth 1st and transports her to 1978 Britain where we meet all the strange characters of the scene. Defiantly not one for everyone, you'll ethier love it or hate it, but if you are interested in Punk or obscure art movies then you have to see this.
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MCT:August 20, 2007
Great set-up, not so great outcome. Definitely worth watching once if you're even slightly interested in weird films or punk rock, but perhaps not a second time (though I suppose you'd really need a second watch to fully understand this film).
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MCT:March 22, 2007No one seems to know Little Nell movies and this is one of them. . . someone should really make her a Flixster account, I would but I don't know how.
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MCT:March 4, 2007
'Jubilee' is an excellent British film from the punk era. This is definitely a film for fans of obscure british cinema. Overall a wonderfully trashy, funny, bizarre film.
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MCT:February 19, 2007
Interesting work deriving from the post-punk era of Britain which glorifies the hostility of the rage which fuelled the project - on the side of the filmakers of course.
The cast are fairly good (especially Jordan) and could only have been trouped for a British film. That is what makes the film so absorbing, its eccentric anger reflecting the punks of post-apocolyptic Britain.
A messy film with some sloppy parts (Toyah Wilcox I could slap) but is ultimatly one of the better 'alternative' British films to circulate the film world. -
MCT:January 3, 2007
The greatest Punk Rock movie ever! Mixes art, music, politics, social commentary, and philosophy with a chaotic story to create a cinematic masterpiece!
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