The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical haunting film about a young man's search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it “My most austere work but also the closest to my heart.”