Film · 1992 · Müzik

The Smiths: The Complete Picture

Yönetmen

Derek Jarman, Tim Broad, Paula Grief

Süre

50 dk

Oyuncular

Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce, Dale Hibbert, Craig Gannon

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.