I've Been Trying to Tell You

I've Been Trying to Tell You

45 mins | Documentary, Music | Sept. 10, 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.

I've Been Trying to Tell You

45 mins | Documentary, Music | Sept. 10, 2021

I've Been Trying to Tell You
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.
Producers British Film Institute
Original title I've Been Trying to Tell You
Directors Alasdair McLellan
Writers Alasdair McLellan, Saint Etienne

Cast

Kit Butler

as Kit Butler

Fern Bain Smith

as Fern Bain Smith

Nora Attal

as Nora Attal

AJ Adamu

as AJ Adamu

Saint Etienne

as Saint Etienne