Sebastiane
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 13, 2003
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James & Neil Kennedy | |
Performer: | Lindsay Kemp & Richard Warwick | |
Directed by | Derek Jarman | |
Composition by | Brian Eno | |
Cinematography by | Peter Middleton |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
An out-and-proud Spartacus and a pre-AIDS Beau travail, all in one.
Nick's Flick Picks
Derek Jarman looks at Sebastian and sees what Botticelli (and Perugino, Reni and Mishima) saw, the lambent space between spiritual and sexual longing
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CinePassion
Rating: A- --
A one of a kind film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The story is reduced to a boring and physical apotheosis of sweat, skin, and tedium. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 4/5 --
The Passion of the Flesh
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JWR
Rating: 3.5/4 --
[It] treads an almost imperceptible line between using devout fidelity to ratify its source and using rampant infidelity to undermine it.
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MovieMartyr.com
Product Description:
Derek Jarman's debut feature film created a firestorm of controversy over its frank portrayal of homosexuality, violence, and the ultimate martyrdom of the Catholic saint Sebastiane in 303 A.D. A visually striking fantasy, SEBASTIANE begins at the court of Emperor Diocletian in an unforgettable sequence of Roman excess and Bacchanalian sexuality. Similar in tone to the opening sequence to Ken Russell's THE DEVILS, which Jarman designed in 1971, the film is also reminiscent of the orgiastic fantasies of Federico Fellini's SATYRICON and Cecil B. DeMille's THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. (Jarman was conscious of these similarities--a Roman soldier in the film, dreaming of the golden era of Rome, mentions "Cecilli Mille" and "Phillistini's Satyricon.") Accused of standing up for a Christian, Sebastiane (Leonardo Treviglio), friend of the emperor and captain of his guard, is demoted to mere soldier and banished from Rome to a coastal outpost. This remote place proves to be both a barren wasteland and an oasis of freedom where the men are free to act out homosexual fantasies and explore their hidden desires. However, Sebastiane angers outpost captain Severus by ignoring his sexual advances and devoting himself to God. Their ongoing battle erupts in a violent and stunningly homoerotic execution. Jarman's striking work is acted in Latin with English subtitles and features music by Brian Eno.