Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Name: Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Genre: Biography, Music, Documentary
Released: February 2, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Celeste Bell, Don Letts, Hazel Emmons, Ifrah Ahmed, John Lydon

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Modern Films | Release Date (Streaming): February 2, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Celeste Bell, Don Letts, Hazel Emmons, Ifrah Ahmed, John Lydon, Jonathan Ross, Kathleen Hanna, Kinsi Abdulleh, Neneh Cherry, Pauline Black, Poly Styrene, Rhoda Dakar, Thurston Moore, Vivienne Westwood, X-Ray Spex, Youth

Summary: The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.

Director: Celeste Bell and Paul Sng

Genre(s): Biography, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Rachel Reeves

Mar 22, 2021

In a genre often saturated with sugar-coated stories and selective memories, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché proves to be anything but. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Feb 3, 2022

More than a journeyman rockumentary, “Poly Styrene” is a thoughtfully finessed filial reckoning: a daughter’s journey toward understanding her mother as a young artist and as a young woman of color. Read full review

Jennie Punter

Feb 4, 2022

The film adds an authentic emotional resonance to an important story about an exceptional human who was singing her mind at a pivotal moment in 20th-century pop-culture history. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 22, 2021

[A] riveting and valuable documentary. Read full review

Matthew Anderson

Mar 22, 2021

An affectionate labour of love, cathartic yet bitterly honest, Bell and Sng’s films paints the full, unfettered picture. Read full review

Tim Stegall

Jan 26, 2022

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché is the daughter cinematically coming to terms with their complicated relationship and with a figure who changed our culture. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Feb 2, 2022

This restless film is hardly content to present a portrait of an icon, instead insisting, with compassion and clear eyes, that icons are all too human too. Read full review

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