Absolute Beginners (Relaxed Screening)
classified 12Colin MacInnes’ era defining 1959 novel vividly captured the new cultural phenomenon of the ‘teenager’: rejecting the post war ennui of their parents, hip to new currents in music and relishing the multiculturalism of London’s Notting Hill.
A 1980s cinema adaptation at the height of music press like the NME, style magazines like The Face, and irreverent post punk music television programmes like The Tube, would seem to be a perfect moment.
However, Julien Temple’s much-anticipated film Absolute Beginners, with a who's who cast of music luminaries from Bowie and Ray Davies to Sade and Slim Galliard, was caught in the crosshairs of the imminent collapse of key British film company Goldcrest (the film would be blamed not only for that collapse but also of the entire British Film Industry!) and the high esteem which MacInnes’ book was held.
Viewed from a distance of nearly 40 years and without those twin pressures, Absolute Beginners is admirably ambitious cinema continuing in a visionary British cinematic lineage set by Powell & Pressburger and whose dialogue between 1950s and 1980s pop culture and rising racial & political tensions speaks as pertinently and presciently to today.
This is a Relaxed Screening.
- Please note: Absolute Beginners (Relaxed Screening) on Thu 24 July 11:05 is a Relaxed Visit.
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