CinemaOSMovie · 2021 · 0h 45m

I've Been Trying to Tell You

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

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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.

Directed byAlasdair McLellan

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 45m
Language
EN
Released
September 10, 2021
Studios
BFIHeavenly FilmsOrac Productions

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Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You - Official Trailer

Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You - Official Trailer

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Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

AJ Adamu

AJ Adamu

Nora Attal

Nora Attal

Fern Bain Smith

Fern Bain Smith

Kit Butler

Kit Butler

Matthew Dawson

Sam Dilkes

Aimee Gillingwater

Tara Halliwell

Daisy Heath

Olly Heyes

Creative team
Directed by
Alasdair McLellan
Written by
Alasdair McLellan
Sarah Cracknell
Sarah Cracknell
Produced by
Alasdair McLellan
Bob Stanley
Bob Stanley

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