I've Been Trying to Tell You
“Saint Etienne present a beautiful and enveloping nostalgia trip through 1990s Britain.”
2021•PG•45m•6.0•Released
MusicDocumentary
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
Writer
Alasdair McLellan, Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs
Languages
English
Studio
BFI
Cast
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
Tom Heyes
Bodhi Horton
Alexander Hu-Haines
Mia Juul
Morgan Kent
Production
Company
BFI
Company
Heavenly Films
Company
Orac Productions
Producer
Alasdair McLellan
Producer
Bob Stanley
Producer
Sarah Cracknell
Producer
Pete Wiggs
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