(I've Been Trying to Tell You)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Music,

Documentary

Runtime:

45 minutes

Year:

2021

Directors:

Alasdair McLellan

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Production companies:

BFI

Actors:

Kit Butler

Fern Bain Smith

Nora Attal

AJ Adamu

Saint Etienne

Crews:

Music

Sound

Writer

Writer

Director