If you can see ball gowns and bovver boots picking their way over rubble beside the Thames set to a classical music score, you're probably watching a Derek Jarman picture.
England's first punk film was mostly shot around Butlers Wharf and Shad Thames in Southwark, south-east London; in the late 1970s a hive of mouldering warehouses and docks - ideal for the director's vision of a run-down capital besieged by murderous punks. (Two decades later, in the same spot, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth would inflict less lasting damage on one another in Bridget Jones's Diary.)
A preposterous film in many ways, and particularly memorable for punk icon Jordan's burlesque strut to a reggae-fied 'Rule Britannia' while wearing a Union Flag skirt. The Spice Girls didn't know they were born. (Although, in all fairness, Baby Spice did precede the film by a year.)
England's first punk film was mostly shot around Butlers Wharf and Shad Thames in Southwark, south-east London; in the late 1970s a hive of mouldering warehouses and docks - ideal for the director's vision of a run-down capital besieged by murderous punks. (Two decades later, in the same spot, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth would inflict less lasting damage on one another in Bridget Jones's Diary.)
A preposterous film in many ways, and particularly memorable for punk icon Jordan's burlesque strut to a reggae-fied 'Rule Britannia' while wearing a Union Flag skirt. The Spice Girls didn't know they were born. (Although, in all fairness, Baby Spice did precede the film by a year.)