was the queerest. She was fucking the gardener, and Russell.” This is the line that a young Ludwig Wittgenstein daintily uses to introduce Tilda Swinton’s depiction of the historical figure in Derek Jarman’s.
A particularly notable scene is one in which the actress appears with her face painted as May Ray’s 1922 photograph of Bronislava Nijinsky, in stripes of blue and yellow with a plastic comb strategically placed in her topknot. Morag Ross, the make-up artist responsible for such a look, also gave Swinton pillar-box red fingernails and lips, a pallid complexion and spidery thin brows framing heavily shadowed eyes, reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich.