Ive Been Trying to Tell You

Do you look back on the optimism of the 19972001 era as a lost golden age or do you see it as a period of naïvety delusion and folly Theres 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 preinternet time Modern nostalgia often draws on corporate American90s mall culture but what about British culture With Ive 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