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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Film / 2021

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Directed by Paul SngCeleste Bell

DocumentaryMusic

★ 6.6/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Poly StyreneHerself (Archive Footage) Celeste BellSelf/Narrator Ruth NeggaPoly Styrene (voice) Neneh CherrySelf YouthSelf Bruno Aleph WizardSelf Kathleen HannaSelf Thurston MooreSelf Vivienne WestwoodSelf Don LettsSelf Jonathan RossSelf John RobbSelf

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Vivien GoldmanSelf Tony WilsonSelf (Archive Footage) John Cooper ClarkeSelf (Archive Footage) Rhoda DakarSelf Lora LogicSelf (Archive Footage) Paul DeanSelf

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