Synopsis
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
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Cast
- Jenny RunacreQueen Elizabeth I / Bod
- Nell CampbellCrabs (as Little Nell)
- Toyah WillcoxMad
- Pamela RookeAmyl Nitrite
- Ian CharlesonAngel
- Karl JohnsonSphinx
- Linda SpurrierViv
- Jack BirkettBorgia Ginz (as Orlando)
- Hermine DemorianeChaos
- Neil KennedyMax
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
Derek Jarman's Jubilee is one of the most original, bold, and exciting features to have come out of Britain in the 1970s. - 85
Film Threat
Jarman’s sophomore film Jubilee, is a Molotov Cocktail of celluloid – a film that practically dares you to watch it. - 80
Empire
The ideas are good enough for you to allow for some risible performances. - 80
Rolling Stone
Appearances by Adam Ant, the Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees, along with U.S. trans icon Jayne County, ground it in the moment, but Jarman's suggestion that even the most vocal nihilists would sell out their ideals — if given enough encouragement, naturally — provided a glimpse of the future. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Neat and quirky, this is undoubtedly one of the freshest black comedies around. - 70
Time Out
In conception the film remains highly original, and it does deliver enough of the goods to sail effortlessly away with the title of Britain's first official punk movie.
