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RAZORLIGHT - 'Rock and Roll Lies' the film

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RAZORLIGHT documentary trailer

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'Rock and Roll Lies' clip 1

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'Rock and Roll Lies' clip 2

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'Rock and Roll Lies' clip 3

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RAZORLIGHT: 'ROCK AND ROLL LIES'

Babelgum is proud to play host to 'Rock and Roll Lies', an intimate portrait of one of music’s most enigmatic and controversial frontmen Johnny Borrell, and his band, Razorlight.


The documentary was filmed by award winning filmmaker Charles Henri Belleville over the course of five days during the band's summer tour, visiting an array of obscure and grandiose  UK venues including Buxton's Opera House, a 1930s dance hall in Leamington Spa, the hallowed King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow and London's monumentally proportioned O2 Arena.


Watch the film in full, trailer and clips...right here

THE DIRECTOR

Charles Henri Belleville is a 25 year old Scottish writer/director.


"I was living in Paris in 2004 when I first heard Razorlight. At the time I was a struggling film-maker living on bread and wine. I was making a documentary on George, a George W Bush lookalike who would eat razorblades and lit matches to hustle a buck. One rainy afternoon outside the Pompidou centre, George consumed the 10th razor blade of his act. He awkwardly lights some matches and throws them down his throat. The audience as always are horrified but transfixed. I am filming their reaction and out the corner of my eye this kid moves towards George.


He tries to grab George and make him listen to his headphones. George starts shocking on the blades. A woman screams. I grab the kid. George eventually regurgitates the blades. I confront the kid. He holds his hand up apologetically. 'Razor' he says pointing to George. I nod. He says 'light'. I reply 'Yeah matches'. He holds up his headphones. I hear the infectious hedonism of Rip It Up."

Charlie's first-ever feature, 'The Inheritance', won the inaugural Raindance Award at the 2007 British Independent Film Awards.

 

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