SEBASTIANE: REMASTERED EDITION [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1976
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Derek Jarman's (Caravaggio) feature film debut (co-directing with Paul Humfress), Sebastiane is a 'one of a kind' (Time Out London) historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has alwyas lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics. Telling the story of the martydom of St. Sebastiane in the same way that Italian Renaissance painters used the image of Sebastian to eroticize the male nude, Jarman depicts both earthly lust and spiritual yearning with 'an honesty and directness that's the absolute opposite of camp.' (The Guardian); ; Stripped of rank and exiled to a remote Sardinian outpost, Roman soldier and suspected Christian Sebastian becomes the object of his commanding officer's aggresive desire. As Sebastian turns his back on his fellow soldiers in favor of his own mystical longings, his sun-bleached Mediterranean idyll becomes a psycho-sexual hothouse where lust sets the stage for a shocking tableau of death and martyrdom.; ; Audaciously spken in Latin and supported by one of cult composer Brian Eno's best music scores, Sebastiane is both a milestone of British independent film and a pioneering work of queer cinema.
• Cast: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham, Daevid Finbar, Ken Hicks, Lindsay Kemp, Steffano Massari, Janusz Romanov, Peter Hinwood, Gerald Incandela, Jordan, Robert Medley, Philip Sayer, Charlotte Barnes, Rufus Barnes, Nell Campbell, Sally Campbell, Graham Cracker, Michael Davis, Nicholas de Jongh, Joan de Vere Hunt, Duggie Fields, Guy Ford, Christopher Hobbs, Gerlinde Kostiff, Michael Kostiff, Ulla Larson-Styles, Andrew Logan, Luciana Martínez, Alasdair McGaw, Patricia Quinn, Eric Roberts, Norman Rosenthal, Johnny Rozsa, John Scarlett-Davies, Rae Spencer-Cullen, Volker Stokes, Thilo von Watzdorf, Harry Waistnage, Kevin Whitney, Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress
• Director: Derek Jarman
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: Kino Classics, Kono Lorber, Euro London Films, Ltd
• Media Format: Movie