David Bowie - Absolute Beginners FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE

If you enumerate the best dance movies and musicals of the 80s, you always forget absolute beginners, although even David Bowie sings along! The original recipe: In Absolute Beginners we see the emergence of teenage culture in London, and we see it sung. It is based on the novel by Colin MacInnes, set in the years just before the explosion of pop culture in the early 60s. The plot is negligible. It's about the beginning and loss of the first teenage love - but in reality it's about the imaginative musical numbers. Here comes up-and-coming photographer Colin (Eddie O'Connell) who falls in love with fashion designer Suzette (Patsy Kensit). But Suzette takes her career more important than Colin... For this Julien Temple recreates the London part of Soho during the late 50s as a wonderful studio decoration. There's music to go with it, which sounds suspiciously like 80s! The film follows the concept of style over substance. None of the characters seem real, they are all comic characters. Fitting to the studio buildings. All the interesting British actors of the time appear very briefly: Robbie Coltrane and Steven Berkoff and so on. The best way to do this is as follows: Ignore the film as a whole. Enjoy the good individual performances, the setting, the successful parts. Ignore the bad parts. It may well be mean that Temple also deals with the racism of his time. But much more important to him is colorful neon light. In addition the music of Sade, The Style Council, Jerry Dammers, Ray Davies and Tenpole Tudor. Plus David Bowie. Julien Temple has always been a director of music films and so you can also listen to his musical as an outline of the British music scene of the 80s. I was not bored for a second!