Jordan at Cannes

How do you describe the film  Jubilee ? Here's a review off Amazon. 

Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee, said to be the "first official punk film" is one of the most original and disturbing urban dystopias to emerge from that era of British film-making. Setting itself in a version of late 70s London where anarchy reigns and Judge Dredd-style police are as lawless as the gangs on the street, the film never fails to surprise and Punk rock experts can play a game of spot-the-cameo. Whilst all this takes place, there's also the matter of Queen Elizabeth I, brought forward in time by the angel Arial to gain supreme knowledge...

Violent and twisted, Jubilee manages, however, to convince that destruction isn't the only aspect of an anarchic society, and questions the meaning meaning of life, love, history and even the violence itself in a world without balance. 

Jordan on Jubilee. "Jubilee pushed me to the limits mentally and physically. I had to dance on points on concrete - no ballerina has to do that they've got supple wooden floors. My toes bled.." She had learned ballet from aged four to eighteen.

In the NME interview of 15/4/78 Jordan  says Derek Jarman is " very, very clever" pointing out it was he that wrote her screen monologue on the merits of Myra Hindley . Jordan believed in the interview that Myra should be freed.

She also has a different opinion of the film in that she thinks "Its a laugh...that's the point everyone misses. I've seen really straight people literally crying with laughter at it. ..Any other director would have done a...sensationalist sex and violence quicky..." Which is weird because it certainly has all the sex and violence elements !!

"We actually got arrested that day 'cause Derek (Jarman-director) insisted on using real guns and the police took us away. We tried to explain that the guns had no firing pins but I don't think they even knew what they were."