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Saint Etienne present a beautiful and enveloping nostalgia trip through 1990s Britain.
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.
September 10, 2021
BFI, Heavenly Films
37 people
AJ Adamu
AJ Adamu
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Nora Attal
Nora Attal
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Fern Bain Smith
Fern Bain Smith
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Kit Butler
Kit Butler
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Matthew Dawson
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Sam Dilkes
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Aimee Gillingwater
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Tara Halliwell
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Daisy Heath
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Olly Heyes
Acting
Tom Heyes
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Bodhi Horton
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