I've Been Trying to Tell You (2021)
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.
Director: Alasdair McLellan
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Kit Butler as Kit Butler |
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Fern Bain Smith as Fern Bain Smith |
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Nora Attal as Nora Attal |
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AJ Adamu as AJ Adamu |
| Production | Alasdair McLellan | Producer |
| Directing | Alasdair McLellan | Director |
| Writing | Alasdair McLellan | Writer |
| Sound | Bob Stanley | Music |
| Sound | Pete Wiggs | Music |
| Sound | Sarah Cracknell | Music |
| Production | Bob Stanley | Producer |
| Production | Sarah Cracknell | Producer |
| Production | Pete Wiggs | Producer |
| Writing | Sarah Cracknell | Writer |
| Writing | Bob Stanley | Writer |
| Writing | Pete Wiggs | Writer |
