I've Been Trying to Tell You
6.2
“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.
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Alasdair McLellan Director · Sarah Cracknell Writer Pete Wiggs Writer
First release September 10, 2021 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Heavenly Films, Orac Productions
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BFI
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Heavenly Films
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Orac Productions
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English
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English
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United Kingdom · September 10, 2021
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December 6, 2021 · Physical · Blu-Ray