The Smiths: The Complete Picture

Synopsis

Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me...), and one by Paula Grief and Richard Levine (How Soon Is Now?). It concludes with Jarman's short film, "The Queen Is Dead," with a three-song soundtrack. The rock videos, particularly Jarman's, are filled with multiple and superimposed images, changing tints, and little narrative coherence; they get their pace from the music's rhythm. Androgyny, dancing children, belching smokestacks, graffiti, angry young men, a waif in a cap: collages of modern alienation.

Main Cast

Morrissey

himself

Age : 55 | Popularity : 14%

Johnny Marr

himself

Age : 61 | Popularity : 16%

Andy Rourke

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Mike Joyce

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Dale Hibbert

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Craig Gannon

himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Derek Jarman Paula Grief Tim Broad
Department	Role	Name

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