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.
| Tagline | Saint Etienne present a beautiful and enveloping nostalgia trip through 1990s Britain. |
| Release Date: | Sep 10, 2021 |
| Genres: | Music, Documentary |
| Production Company: | BFI |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Casts: | Kit Butler, Fern Bain Smith, Nora Attal, AJ Adamu |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $0 |
| Revenue: | 0 |