Tilda Swinton’s Most Fabulous Character to Date

“God the English are a queer bunch; Lady Ottoline Morell 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 Wittgenstein (1993). Originally written by literary theorist Terry Eagleton, the script was reworked by the auteur of queer art-house cinema to examine the politics and sexuality of the…