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/kult Film: 24 Hour Party People

21 May

24 Hour Party People is a comedy drama semi-biopic postmodern hoot of a movie. Centred on Manchester’s Factory Records from 1976-1992, it follows label boss Tony Wilson from the roots of punk through Ian Curtis’ suicide, the rise and fall of New Order, and the babylonian excesses of acid house, the Hacienda and the Happy Mondays. The result is probably the closest you’ll get to the beating heart (at 120bpm) of Manchester’s musical history, at about ten laughs per minute.

24 Hour Party People is a comedy drama semi-biopic postmodern hoot of a movie. Centred on Manchester’s Factory Records from 1976-1992, it follows label boss Tony Wilson (played to comic perfection by Steve Coogan) from the roots of punk through Ian Curtis’ suicide, the rise and fall of New Order, and the babylonian excesses of acid house, the Hacienda and the Happy Mondays. It’s a ripe history for legends both real and urban, so director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cotrell Boyce make no bones about mixing fact and fiction, as well as not so much breaking the fourth wall as splintering it into mirrored shards of throwaway, who-gives-a-fuck postmodernism. The result is probably the closest you’ll get to the beating heart (at 120bpm) of Manchester’s musical history, at about ten laughs per minute.

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