Beats (UK)

MA15+
2019
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101 mins
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Set in the Scottish summer of '94, two soon-to-depart mates spend one last night together at an illegal rave in... More

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Beats (UK) | Ratings & Reviews

"…goes beyond the social realism so prevalent in British film, to capture the immediacy and euphoria of 1990s rave culture."

FilmInkFilmInk

"Welsh has delivered a compelling snapshot of an era and captured a moment in life when friendship is at its most sustaining."

Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

"Beats is a simple structure, loaded with detail, dialogue and situations that only a writer who lived it could have conjured up."

StuffStuff

"Beats doesn't have anything more to say than previous films about dance culture, but with a visual style of its own and excellent music choices, it's a fitting tribute to an era etched in the memory of anyone old enough to have attended."

New Zealand HeraldNew Zealand Herald

"The script, adapted by Welsh and Kieran Hurley from Hurley's play, is especially good on the preciousness and subjectivity of cultural experience."

The TimesThe Times

"It's miraculously authentic - the pill-popping centrepiece is the heavenly answer to the LSD hell of Gaspar Noé's 'Climax'."

Time OutTime Out

"Beats brilliantly captures the nervy, joyful terror of turning up at a derelict warehouse equipped with a soundsystem and woefully inadequate toilet facilities."

Screen DailyScreen Daily

"Beats proceeds to give a dying scene its euphoric due, in a dazzling digression from stage-based form."

VarietyVariety

"Compared with Mia Hansen-Løve’s resonant French house drama Eden, or Michael Winterbottom’s kaleidoscopic 24 Hour Party People, these beats sound tinny."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"An infectiously enjoyable slice of knockabout nostalgia that wears its Trainspotting heritage proudly on its rough-edged tartan sleeve."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"Beats is a truly heartfelt rites-of-passage tale — an immersive, intoxicating portrayal of the rave scene at its peak."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

Beats (UK) | Details

Rating
MA15+, Strong coarse language
Runtime
101
Genre
Drama, Music
Country of origin
UK

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