'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times
Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest.
Written from Jarman's Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet
Product details
Publisher : Vintage Classics (2 Aug. 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 1784875163
ISBN-13 : 978-1784875169
Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 208,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
180 in Film Director Biographies
574 in Living with Cancer & Illnesses Biographies
885 in Individual Directors
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