Egomania: Island Without Hope

1986

German

5.6

Drama

Christoph Schlingensief Director

Anastasia Kudelka as Annastasia

Udo Kier as Baron Tante Teufel

Werner Funke as Narrator

Tilda Swinton as Sally

Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film’s characters – riddled with unconscious desires – find themselves imprisoned on an island. Drawing parallels to the work of British filmmaker Derek Jarman and staring Jarman’s actress-muse Tilda Swinton, Schlingensief’s raw and almost mythological film stands in contrast to his more offensive efforts.