Music Documentary
Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? There’s a lot of nostalgia for the nineties at the moment, especially from people too young to remember it who see the decade as a simpler, pre-internet time. Modern nostalgia often draws on corporate American-90s mall culture, but what about British culture? With I’ve Been Trying To Tell You – made to accompany the Saint Etienne album of the same name – director Alasdair McLellan evokes the era through the fog of memory. The resulting film, shot in locations from Grangemouth to Portmeirion to Southampton, is both beautiful and enveloping.
Directed by
Alasdair McLellan
Written by
Pete Wiggs, Bob Stanley, Sarah Cracknell, Alasdair McLellan
Iris Law
Hannah Motler
AJ Adamu
AJ Adamu
Nora Attal
Nora Attal
Fern Bain Smith
Fern Bain Smith
Kit Butler
Kit Butler
Matthew Dawson
Sam Dilkes
Aimee Gillingwater
Tara Halliwell
Olly Heyes
Tom Heyes
Bodhi Horton
Alexander Hu-Haines
Mia Juul
Morgan Kent
Max Knott
Natalia Lemper
Ollie Martyn
Zak McNicholas
Oisín Murphy
Reece Nelson
Jack Newman
Louis Powell
Oscar Ridding
Jyrrel Roberts
Sophia Roberts
Joshua Samuel Freeman
Moses Singh
Savannah Stacey Keenan
Giuseppe Surdi
Lola Varley
Liv Walters

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