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I've Been Trying to Tell You

I've Been Trying to Tell You

Saint Etienne present a beautiful and enveloping nostalgia trip through 1990s Britain.

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MusicDocumentary

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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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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

45 mins

Rating

6/10

Release Date

10 September 2021

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Kit Butler

Kit Butler

Kit Butler

Fern Bain Smith

Fern Bain Smith

Fern Bain Smith

Nora Attal

Nora Attal

Nora Attal

AJ Adamu

AJ Adamu

AJ Adamu

Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne

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