It has been marketed as a documentary about the New Romantics, though most of those involved did not associate themselves with that term, and it significantly predates the synth pop associated with that movement. You won’t find big stars here, or even well known tunes – Matthew Sims and Verity Susman have provided it with an entirely new electronic score – as director Kevin Hegge instead focuses on the artists whose work underlay the movement, exploring the substance behind the style.
As a result of this approach, what could have been just another exercise in nostalgia instead emerges as a valuable picture of a grassroots creative movement which emerged as a counterpoint to the nihilism of punk (though with some overlap) and enabled talented individuals to flourish like flowers in asphalt. It wasn’t unique, of course – such individuals occur from time to time all over the world – but it...
As a result of this approach, what could have been just another exercise in nostalgia instead emerges as a valuable picture of a grassroots creative movement which emerged as a counterpoint to the nihilism of punk (though with some overlap) and enabled talented individuals to flourish like flowers in asphalt. It wasn’t unique, of course – such individuals occur from time to time all over the world – but it...
- 6/2/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture and Kevin Hegge’s Tramps! to bookend BFI Flare festival.
The 36th BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 16-27) is to open with the UK premiere of Alli Haapasalo’s coming-of-age drama Girl Picture and to close with the world premiere of Kevin Hegge’s feature doc Tramps!.
Finnish director Haapasalo’s Girl Picture won the World Cinema Dramatic audience award at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen in the Berlinale next week.
The story of three girls at the cusp of womanhood, it follows them over three consecutive Fridays as...
The 36th BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival (March 16-27) is to open with the UK premiere of Alli Haapasalo’s coming-of-age drama Girl Picture and to close with the world premiere of Kevin Hegge’s feature doc Tramps!.
Finnish director Haapasalo’s Girl Picture won the World Cinema Dramatic audience award at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen in the Berlinale next week.
The story of three girls at the cusp of womanhood, it follows them over three consecutive Fridays as...
- 2/11/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
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