A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.


The Garden (1990)
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Tilda Swinton
Madonna/Voice Overs
JM
Johnny Mills
Lover
PM
Philip MacDonald
Joseph

Pete Lee-Wilson
Devil

Spencer Leigh
Mary Magdalene / Adam
JG
Jody Graber
Young Boy
RC
Roger Cook
Christ
KC
Kevin Collins
Lover
DA
Dawn Archibald
Nature Spirit
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