《慢慢微笑》是英国导演德里克·贾曼生前最后一部日记，记录了他在身患重病后，在身体状况逐渐恶化、创作能力日趋衰减之时对生活、艺术、疾病、爱情的深刻思考。他以优美又饱含深情的笔触写下了日常中的种种艺术思考和实践，回忆了与朋友交游的青春时光，记录了病榻之上的肉体与灵魂经受的煎熬，同时抒发对英国社会动态和艺术创作环境的深深忧虑和愤慨，文字中同时充盈着欢欣与痛苦、愤怒和宁静。
这本书是贾曼的墓碑，艺术家的灵魂栖息其上，至今仍在轻盈地翕动双翅。其所有呼喊与耳语，自省与告白，都凝聚为一行字：
“我活在爱中。”
Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman’s last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest.
Written from Jarman’s Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride.
