All in all a wonderfully creative, even innovative, stylised film that I remind to those who enjoy auteur and art-house plus homo-erotic movies. The hand held quality of the film was a pioneering method of filming that also lends to the realism of the period. The settings were perfect, the depictions quite accurate, the drunken scenes were real because they really were drunk. The historical accuracy of the life of Sebastian, the saint, was more correct than most of the hagiographies of his life. The acting in Sebastiane may seem stilted but that also might be due to the fact that many of the actors were amateurs the Latin for me also lent an aura of authenticity since I studied Latin in high-school for five years. ![]() Absolutely loved it and have pretty clear recollection of most of it, it's amazing! I was a bit blinded by some of the homo-erotic content and had no idea that Jarman would go on to make a number of art-house films, many also dealing with homosexual texts such as Carravagio, a painter I absolutely love as well as Edward the Second, film version of Christopher Marlowe's play of the fay king of England. Remember seeing this film on the big screen in an art film house in Ottawa while I was a student in Visual Arts two decades ago.
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