Quadrophenia (1979)
Country: GB
Technical: col 120m
Director: Franc Roddam
Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Sting, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone, Toyah Willcox
Synopsis:
A rebellious teenager from London lives for Friday night when he can ride his Lambretta with his Mod friends. A visit from an old friend with Rocker tendencies ought to wake him up, but he rides to Brighton with his mates looking for trouble, and finds it.
Review:
This self-pitying cry of rage against the world of Mum and Dad was The Who's second venture into Rock musical territory, and it says something about the parlous state of the British Film Industry at the time that a film about an episode of the Sixties everyone involved would rather forget turned out to be the sensation of 1979. As such a fitting closure to the decade that began with That'll Be the Day, perhaps, though certainly not a better film, and one would have thought the band would have grown out of chorusing antisocial attitudes and mindless destruction of property by the time they had hit their forties. In short, tedious and undisciplined, it even fudges its climactic leap into the void by removing the body, reducing Jimmy's one positive act to the status of Pete Townshend's smashed up guitar.
Country: GB
Technical: col 120m
Director: Franc Roddam
Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Sting, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone, Toyah Willcox
Synopsis:
A rebellious teenager from London lives for Friday night when he can ride his Lambretta with his Mod friends. A visit from an old friend with Rocker tendencies ought to wake him up, but he rides to Brighton with his mates looking for trouble, and finds it.
Review:
This self-pitying cry of rage against the world of Mum and Dad was The Who's second venture into Rock musical territory, and it says something about the parlous state of the British Film Industry at the time that a film about an episode of the Sixties everyone involved would rather forget turned out to be the sensation of 1979. As such a fitting closure to the decade that began with That'll Be the Day, perhaps, though certainly not a better film, and one would have thought the band would have grown out of chorusing antisocial attitudes and mindless destruction of property by the time they had hit their forties. In short, tedious and undisciplined, it even fudges its climactic leap into the void by removing the body, reducing Jimmy's one positive act to the status of Pete Townshend's smashed up guitar.
Country: GB
Technical: col 120m
Director: Franc Roddam
Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Sting, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone, Toyah Willcox
Synopsis:
A rebellious teenager from London lives for Friday night when he can ride his Lambretta with his Mod friends. A visit from an old friend with Rocker tendencies ought to wake him up, but he rides to Brighton with his mates looking for trouble, and finds it.
Review:
This self-pitying cry of rage against the world of Mum and Dad was The Who's second venture into Rock musical territory, and it says something about the parlous state of the British Film Industry at the time that a film about an episode of the Sixties everyone involved would rather forget turned out to be the sensation of 1979. As such a fitting closure to the decade that began with That'll Be the Day, perhaps, though certainly not a better film, and one would have thought the band would have grown out of chorusing antisocial attitudes and mindless destruction of property by the time they had hit their forties. In short, tedious and undisciplined, it even fudges its climactic leap into the void by removing the body, reducing Jimmy's one positive act to the status of Pete Townshend's smashed up guitar.