I've Been Trying to Tell You(2021)

Name: I've Been Trying to Tell You
Director: Alasdair McLellan
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 2021-01-01
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Kit Butler, Fern Bain Smith, Nora Attal, AJ Adamu

Kit Butler Fern Bain Smith Nora Attal AJ Adamu

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.