On the Road
Synopsis
In Summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love is Cool inspired NME magazine to crown it, “the debut of the decade”.
Director Michael Winterbottom joins the band on the road, capturing sixteen different gigs and daily life backstage. The resulting tour film, which records the tour from the point of view of a new member of their crew, is a refreshingly unusual one with unexpected twists; revealing the relentless, sometimes unglamorous graft of playing loud, hot, physical music, night after night. But the film also mesmerises, offering a structure that reveals more, at every stop on the road, of the nuanced musicality of the full band, and the bewitching talent and charisma of front woman, Ellie Rowsell.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 112 mins
- Director
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Michael Winterbottom
- Producer
- Melissa Parmenter, Anthony Wilcox
- Executive Producer
- Julian Bird, Abi Gadsby, Declan Reddington
- Editor
- Marc Richardson
- Sound
- Supervising Sound Editor: Joakim Sundström; Music Mixer: Fredrik Stålne
- Principal cast
- Ellie Rowsell, Joff Oddie, Joel Amey, Theo Ellis, Leah Harvey, Paul Popplewell, Jamie Quinn, James McArdle, Swim Deep, Bloody Knees
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
A Revolution Films production with support of Lorton Entertainment
Revolution Films
9A Dallington StreetLondon
EC1V 0BQ
Sales Company
Independent Film Sales
195 Wardour StreetLondon
W1F 8ZG
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