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 | | The film's explicit content and ground-breaking full-frontal male nudity earned it an X rating when it was first released; the film went on to become a critical and commercial success. |
 | | Although the film is relatively faithful to Marlowe's Elizabethan text, Jarman's direction turned the source material into a parable of homosexual martyrdom in the face of institutionalized homophobia, with direct references to the repressive nature of Thatcher-era British politics. |
 | | Other significant films by Jarman include The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), The Garden (1990), Wittgenstein (1993), and his final work Blue (1993), in which a soundtrack of voices, sound effects, and music are densely interwoven against a plain, unchanging cobalt blue screen to convey Jarman's experiences with AIDS. |
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