I've Been Trying to Tell You (2021)

I've Been Trying to Tell You (2021)

Saint Etienne present a beautiful and enveloping nostalgia trip through 1990s Britain. 2021-09-10 United Kingdom 45 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.

Cast

Kit Butler is Kit Butler
Kit Butler
Fern Bain Smith is Fern Bain Smith
Fern Bain Smith
Nora Attal is Nora Attal
Nora Attal
AJ Adamu is AJ Adamu
AJ Adamu
Saint Etienne is Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne