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Aesthetic Screenlock

by Aesthetic Screenlock

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Such tales are at the heart of 2002's 24-Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom's brilliant mockumentary/history of the so-called "Madchester" scene, and Wilson's attempts to be its mogul. Comic/actor Steve Coogan plays Wilson with a winning blend of charm, slime, calculation and cluelessness, and Winterbottom knows that it's less important to "tell the truth" about what happened than to give a sense of the period's whimsy, idealism and madness. The result is a film that shakes and shimmers, not denying its affection for its subjects (its propulsively ramshackle, try-anything style seems to mimic the music's basslines: you're thrown from one comic moment to the next, but you feel energized, not annoyed), but also looking at them with clear eyes and a necessary amount of sarcasm and mockery. Between its plays with time, delight in tweaking form, and using those stylistic tics to explore the intersection of art, journalism, sex and commerce, 24-Hour Party People is kind of like Citizen Kane-- if Rosebud turned out to be a coke spoon, and Charles Foster Kane swallowed it. veritylane.blogspot.com

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released March 13, 2021

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