WITTGENSTEIN
The tormented life of Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is played—in a brilliantly counterintuitive decision—as a comedy in Jarman’s heady experimental biopic, whose sketch-like scenes play out entirely against a black-box theater background. With Karl Johnson as the repressed L.W., and Jarman favorite Tilda Swinton as his hedonistic foil Lady Ottoline Morell.