Blue

In his final – and most daring – cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Set against a blue background – the hue famously created by Yves Klein at the beginning of the 60s (Jarman’s favorite) – the filmmaker, fine artist, stage designer, diarist, gardener and author Derek Jarman lays bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness. An innovative undertaking bordering on fine art, “Blue” is part poetry part documentary, two very different disciplines whose common denominator is the director’s spoken word.