Young Soul Rebels (1991)

Directed by

Isaac Julien

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

M

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In late 1970s London, two Black teenage DJs navigate friendship, sexuality, and racial tensions while running a pirate radio station. Their world collides with punk, skinhead, and soul subcultures after a friend is murdered.

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What happens

Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 independent coming-of-age thriller film written by Derrick Saldaan McClintock, Isaac Julien and Paul Hallam, and directed by Julien as his narrative feature film debut. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, the film examines the interaction between youth cultural movements during the late 1970s in the UK — namely skinheads, punks, and soulboys — along with the social, political, and cultural tensions between them. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 9 August 1991, followed by a North American release on 6 December 1991. The film was the feature film acting debut of Sophie Okonedo and Eamonn Walker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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