A World War I veteran in an old soldier’s home reminisces about his time in the “Great War,” moving in his mind’s eye between the past and present. Structured as a series of flashbacks, this experimental work by director Derek Jarman features no spoken dialogue, rather it illustrates a recording of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” (Op. 66), its libretto partially composed of poems by Wilfred Owen, a British poet who was killed in battle in the last week of the war.
35mm, color, 90 min. DIR/SCR: Derek Jarman. CAST: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier.
