Jubilee

Jubilee

Release Date:  9/30/1979
Country of Release:  United Kingdom
Length:  106 minutes
MPAA:  NR
Medium:  Video
Genre:  DRA MUS
Release Message:  Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape where life mostly seems aimless and is anyway held cheap. Featuring Nell Campbell as Crabs.
Description:  Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape where life mostly seems aimless and is anyway held cheap. Three post-punk girls wile away their vacuous existence as best they can, from time-to-time straying into murder to relieve the boredom. wikipedia: In Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth I (Runacre) is transported forward in time by the occultist John Dee (Richard O'Brien) through the spirit guide Ariel (a character from Shakespeare's The Tempest). Elizabeth arrives in the shattered Britain of the 1970s. Queen Elizabeth II is dead, killed in an arbitrary mugging, and Elizabeth I moves through the social and physical decay of the city observing the activities of a group of sporadic nihilists, including Amyl Nitrite (Jordan), Bod (Runacre in a dual role), Chaos (Hermine Demoriane), Crabs (Nell Campbell), and Mad (Toyah Willcox). Numerous punk icons appear in the film including Jordan (a Malcolm McLaren protŽgŽ), Toyah Willcox, Nell Campbell, Adam Ant, Demoriane and Wayne County. It features performances by Wayne County and Adam and the Ants. There are also cameo appearances by The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees.