Avis Metacritic

Derek Jarman's Jubilee is one of the most original, bold, and exciting features to have come out of Britain in the 1970s.

Jarman’s sophomore film Jubilee, is a Molotov Cocktail of celluloid – a film that practically dares you to watch it.

The ideas are good enough for you to allow for some risible performances.

Appearances by Adam Ant, the Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees, along with U.S. trans icon Jayne County, ground it in the moment, but Jarman's suggestion that even the most vocal nihilists would sell out their ideals — if given enough encouragement, naturally — provided a glimpse of the future.

Neat and quirky, this is undoubtedly one of the freshest black comedies around.

In conception the film remains highly original, and it does deliver enough of the goods to sail effortlessly away with the title of Britain's first official punk movie.