Article: Derek Jarman's brave nude world

DEREK JARMAN

by Tony Peake

(Little, Brown, 25)

NAKED Roman soldiers frolicking in a pool; naked rugby players scrumming down; naked shipwrecked sailors dancing to Stormy Weather: welcome to Derek Jarman's brave nude world. The director of such films as Sebastiane, Edward II and The Tempest was also a painter, stage designer, gardener and diarist.

He believed "a boy's arse is the hole to heaven" and spent most of his life trying to get in there. He died of Aids in 1994.

Tony Peake considers Jarman's death so significant that he begins his biography with his funeral.

This dreadful book is the final nail in the coffin. Jarman ended his days in fever and last-minute political fervour. He ...

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