The_Last_of_England_(film)
The Last of England (film)
1987 British film
The Last of England is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton.
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It is a poetic depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Thatcher's England,[1][2] including the formation of Section 28 Local Government Act.[3] It is named after The Last of England, a painting by Ford Madox Brown.[3]
One of the film's most famous scenes is of Tilda Swinton as a bride mourning her executed husband.[1] The scene was shot near the director's home on the beach of Dungeness, Kent.[3]
Jarman wrote a book, with the same title, to accompany the film.[4]