CREEMEDIA
Julian Temple’s directorial credits include masses of music videos as well as the cult Sex Pistols movie, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, but in recent years, he’s been obsessed with using the music he Knew so welt to explore his longtime grand passion—Britain’s teenagers.
CREEMEDIA
JULIAN TEMPLE’S TEENAGE EXORCISM
Toby Goldstein
Julian Temple’s directorial credits include masses of music videos as well as the cult Sex Pistols movie, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, but in recent years, he’s been obsessed with using the music he Knew so welt to explore his longtime grand passion—Britain’s teenagers. The result, in eye-popping explosions of technicolor movement, is Absolute Beginners, a film most people either love or hate. It’s a grandiose portrait of an era—late ’50s England —that attempts to span all four decades of teenage history and celebrate the spirit of independence which unites them. In the process, Absolute Beginners tells a love story, and examines gentrification, consumerism, race riots and neo-Nazi revivalism for good measure.