Radio On

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"Stunningly photographed in monochrome by Wim Wenders' assistant cameraman Martin Schfer, Radio On is driven by a startling new wave soundtrack featuring David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Lene Lovich, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Robert Fripp and Devo, and reveals an early screen performance by Sting. Following a young London DJ (David Beames) on the road to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, Radio On offers a unique, compelling and even mythic vision of a late 1970s England, stalled between failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of Thatcherism.

WARNING: This film may contain explicit sexual scenes, strong language and violence.

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Release:

1980

Running Time:

104 min

Certificate:

Contains strong language and sexual images

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Genre:

Drama

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Edward Hutchings
Wir fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n auf der M4
07 December 2011
Few British feature film debuts come as distinctive – or as quietly influential – as former Time Out Film editor Chris Petit’s Europhile mission statement. Not quite a road movie – England’s not large enough – Petit’s film takes the aesthetic and social imperatives of Wim Wenders’s luminous monochrome and his continental enquiries, transplanting them to the fields and motorways of southern England. A nominal plot – the strange death of a brother in Bristol – prompts a journey west from London into a place beyond narrative cinema. Utterly cinematic, powered by a startlingly resonant late ’70s soundtrack (with Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ the ironic turntable centre) and with an acute sense of transformative hybrid landscapes as equal players in the film’s unfolding sensibility, ‘Radio On’ sits, quite literally, on the precipice between a failing post-war reality and the coming abyss of Thatcherism. More relevant than ever, Petit’s essay on existential enquiry in an English setting remains critical viewing.
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Robert Young
Sting
01 December 2009
Featuring a fantastic new wave soundtrack with contributions by Devo, David Bowie and Kraftwerk this is a magnificent piece of British filmmaking. Artistically shot in monochrome the story follows a young London DJ who sets out to investigate the death of his brother. It includes a performance from Sting to boot!
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