Thirteen Smiths’ recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me…), and one by Paula Grief and Richard Levine (How Soon Is Now?). It concludes with Jarman’s short film, “The Queen Is Dead,” with a three-song soundtrack. The rock videos, particularly Jarman’s, are filled with multiple and superimposed images, changing tints, and little narrative coherence; they get their pace from the music’s rhythm. Androgyny, dancing children, belching smokestacks, graffiti, angry young men, a waif in a cap: collages of modern alienation. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.9/10 | |
Released: | December 8, 1992 | |
Runtime: | 50 min | |
Genres: | Music | |
Cast: | Morrissey | |
Crew: | Derek Jarman Tim Broad Paula Grief | |
Susan Queen : I saw this over 30 years ago ......and its still moves me in so many directions. It may no...