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Absolute Beginners (1986)
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A commercial disaster upon its release in 1986, Absolute Beginners is an uneven but often stunning attempt at revitalizing the movie musical with postmodern sensibilities. Director Julien Temple was making his first foray into dramatic features after an impressive string of music videos and documentaries (including the first of two Temple-directed profiles of the Sex Pistols), and he upped the stakes by harnessing his visual ingenuity to a period piece exploring London's social transformation at the edge of the '60s--a fleeting moment in the pop zeitgeist that may as well have been the Cambrian Age to Temple's MTV-generation...
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Set in London (circa 1958) - This super-energetic, highly stylized Rock/Jazz musical spotlights some superb song'n'dance numbers featuring the likes of DAVID BOWIE, SADE ADU and STYLE COUNCIL.
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (AB) is a splashy, flashy mix of MTV cleverly combined with vintage-style Hollywood Musical Numbers. This...
(complete Absolute Beginners review by CowboyJunkie)
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