I've Been Trying to Tell You (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Alasdair McLellan
- Production companies: BFI
- Genre: Music, Documentary
- Release date: 9/10/2021
- Run time: 45 min.
Movie description
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.
