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MY LIFE STORY

MY LIFE STORY
by Julien Temple
Country: UK
Year: 2017
Duration: 96'


Starting with the musical directed by Owen Lewis, to which he added archive footage, real-life moments and animated clips, Julien Temple takes us into the life of Graham “Suggs” McPherson, a singer in the legendary ska band Madness, which inflamed stages all over the world in 1977. The catalyst of this entertaining and moving reconnaissance is the death of Suggs’ beloved cat, which happened on its owner’s fiftieth birthday: an unexpected event which makes the artist question himself and his own existential journey. It begins when his father abandoned them forever, when Suggs was three. And then his childhood in the dangerous Soho district during the ’70s, the creation of the group which would lead to success, their performance on Top of the Pops when he was only eighteen… Inside and outside the revolving door of fame and defeat, Suggs relives the most important and significant moments which made him the man he is today.

Biography

film director

Julien Temple

Julien Temple (London, UK, 1953) studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. He debuted with the short Sex Pistols Number 1 (1977), followed by the punk culture documentary The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (1980). He directed several music videos, many feature films (including Absolute Beginners, 1986; and Earth Girls Are Easy, 1988), and music documentaries (such as The Filth and the Fury, 2000; and Glastonbury, 2006). He participated at the Torino Film Festival on multiple occasions, presenting the documentaries Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007), Oil City Confidential (2009), Requiem for Detroit? (2010), London - The Modern Babylon (2012), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015). In 2014 he received the Gran Premio Torino.

FILMOGRAFIA

Sex Pistols Number 1 (coregia/codirector John Tiberi, cm, doc., 1977), The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle (La grande truffa del rock’n’roll, 1980), Absolute Beginners (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy (Le ragazze della terra sono facili, 1988), Vigo (Vigo, passione per la vita, 1998), The Filth and the Fury (Sex Pistols - Oscenità e furore, doc., 2000), Glastonbury (doc., 2006), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Il futuro non è scritto - Joe Strummer, doc., 2007), Oil City Confidential (doc., 2009), Requiem for Detroit? (doc., 2010), London - The Modern Babylon (doc., 2012), Rio 50 Degrees (doc., 2014), The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (doc., 2015), My Life Story (doc., 2017).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Julien Temple
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Graham «Suggs» McPherson, Toby Follett
fotografia/cinematography
Steve Organ
montaggio/film editing
Jonny Halifax, Ben Young
musica/music
Laura Nakhla
suono/sound
Ben Young
interprete/cast
Graham «Suggs» McPherson
produttore/producer
Stephen Malit
produzione/production
Anglo Management, Goldfinch Entertainment, Hannah Management, Nitrate Film

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contatti/contacts
Stephen Malit
stephen@smash-uk.com
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