Sebastiane
Director: Paul Humfress and Derek Jarman
Year Released: 1976
Rating: 1.0
Young Roman Sebastian is exiled to a beach with other soldiers - he falls in love with the one who whips him and eventually meets his end when everyone shoots him with arrows. Let's be perfectly honest: I don't think Jarman or co-director Paul Humfress care anything about the true story of Sebastian (most of their facts are wrong; he was not killed by those famous arrows), and are just using the camera to stare at mostly (or completely) nude men wrestle with each other or bathe. Without incorporating the homoeroticism in some larger context - the way Jarman learned to do in later films - it's more or less a Playgirl calendar with a period theme.
