Stockholm Film Festival

What is punk? Does it mean three fast chords and a bored finger up the establishment's arse or a movement that essentially changed the world? Don Letts, himself a part of the legend, sets the question in “Punk: Attitude”, an immersion into the punk from the cradle of the American fifties’ rock to the light-hearted American new punk.The replies are delivered from both founders and heirs and follows the punk's metamorfos from subculture to manifestation of culture. Wayne Kramer, Chrissie Hynde, Jello Biafra, Thurston Moore, John Cale, Henry Rollins - not unexpectedly the most entertaining one - and others give their opinions on what punk meant for them.Trip goes from USA to England and then back across the Atlantic again.The ingredients stand out clear: Poverty, literary influences, boredom, indignacy over social marginalization and a revolt against the prevailing and the old.Punk: Attitude takes punk seriously.In Letts’ world suicide, poetry reading Patti Smith and hiphop is just as much punk as the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.ADOLFO DIAZ LAMPINEN

Premiärstatus

Svensk premiär

Producent

Jim Parsons

Manus

Don Letts

Foto

Louis Mulvey

Musik

David Byrne(song) & Martyn Lenoble (songs: All Fall Down'', ''I Wanna'' and ''Tramp)

Talat språk

English

 

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