MOVIE REVIEWS : Weekend Entries in British Film Festival : <i> Reviews of the American Film Institute’s BritFest. : </i> : SATURDAY : “THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION”
Monicas, Noon and 6 p.m.
An attempt by Derek Jarman, the controversial director of “Sebastiane” and “Caravaggio,” to evoke homosexual longing through blurred, step-printed images of Calvin Klein-Bruce Weber-type young males in various locales accompanied, on occasion, by Judi Dench’s eloquent reading of Shakespearean sonnets. At 20 minutes “The Angelic Conversation” might just have seemed poetic; at 78, it’s a pretentious bore.
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