Michael Winterbottom's re-creation of the Manchester pop scene from the mid-Seventies through the Eighties: i.e., from punk to rave. Breathless, chaotic, self-consciously "postmodern" -- which translates into raggedy, uneven visuals and a main character who addresses the camera with full knowledge of future events and full awareness that he's in a movie (soon to be a DVD). This character -- real-life TV personality and musical entrepreneur Tony Wilson, portrayed by comedian Steve Coogan -- emerges as a real character all right, a little full of himself, given to exaggeration, an aspiring messiah, yet an earnest enthusiast. Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, Danny Cunningham. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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