Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work

Venice film festival : Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsal There could hardly be a more vivid time-capsule film about the publicly funded British arts scene in the early 1990s than this engrossing fly-on-the-wall documentary about Derek Jarman and his movie Edward II.

Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe, it is about the…