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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Absolute Beginners, it builds a heightened retro world around youth culture, music and street unrest, using bold colour, stylised sets and pop-operatic emotion rather than strict realism.
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Why this pick
This flamboyant rock musical shares Absolute Beginners’ unapologetically artificial visual design, ambitious pop soundtrack and fascination with a city transformed into a theatrical fantasy.
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Why this pick
Ken Russell’s gleefully excessive musical fantasia matches the film’s collision of period imagery, modern pop energy, surreal spectacle and deliberately maximalist filmmaking.
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Why this pick
Its lovingly recreated pre-war nightlife, elaborate musical numbers and romanticised urban period atmosphere make it a more polished, dramatic companion to Absolute Beginners.
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Why this pick
A darker, more emotionally intricate period musical that similarly contrasts stylised song-and-dance fantasy with the social pressures and disappointments beneath popular entertainment.
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01 / THE STORY
The film takes place in 1958, a time in which pop culture is transforming from 1950s jazz and early rock to a new generation on the verge of the 1960s. London is post-World War II, but pre-Beatles/The Rolling Stones. The storyline incorporates elements of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Suzette
Vendice Partners
Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Flora, Colin's Mum
Arthur, Colin's Dad
Fabulous Hoplite
The Fanatic
Dido Lament
