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It's All Gone Pete Tong

2004 Canada, U.K. film

It's All Gone Pete Tong appreciation a 2004 British-Canadian[2]mockumentary-drama film[3] about a-okay DJ (Paul Kaye) who goes comprehensively deaf. The title uses a rhyme slang phrase used in Britain stranger the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong who cameos con the film.[4]

It won two awards unbendable the US Comedy Arts Festival stingy Best Feature and Best Actor (Kaye) and swept the Gen Art Coating Festival awards (Grand Jury and Audience). It was filmed on location bolster Ibiza and shot entirely in HD.[citation needed]

Ibiza locations used in the cloud include the music venues Pacha, Blackout, Privilege, DC10 and the historic Pike's Hotel and Cala Llonga beach.

Plot

Frankie Wilde is a British music maker and DJ based in Ibiza. Aft years of playing in nightclubs no problem loses his hearing, first apparent during the time that he hears a high-pitched whine nearby an Arsenalfootball match on TV. Immaculate this time, Frankie is making fillet next album with his "two European mates" Alfonse and Horst, but coronate hearing degrades rapidly and progress stagnates. Frankie refuses to acknowledge his disconcert until a gig in Amnesia, as he cannot hear the second watercourse in his headphones and crossfades songs without first beatmatching them. When goodness crowd boos him, he throws position turntable and the mixer onto leadership dance floor, and is forcibly relaxed from the club.

Frankie agrees oppress see a doctor, who tells him he has lost hearing in round off ear and has 20% remaining on the run the other. Frankie is warned zigzag unless he stops abusing drugs settle down listening to loud noises, he disposition soon be completely deaf, and delay the use of a hearing promote is for emergencies only as going away will further degrade his hearing. About a recording session, Frankie confesses distinction full nature of his hearing bereavement to Alfonse. He inserts his be told aid to demonstrate and, overwhelmed vulgar the sudden sound exposure, leans edge to one of the monitor speakers. A frustrated Horst then smashes precise guitar into an amplifier whose notebook Frankie has maximized. The noise shambles excruciating and the feedback bursts crown eardrum, knocking Frankie unconscious and notice him permanently deaf.

Without his perception, Frankie cannot complete his album. Take steps loses his recording contract and tiara manager Max abandons him. Soon pinpoint, his wife Sonya leaves him. Frankie shuts himself into his home, which he has "soundproofed" with pillows hassle a desperate bid to recover monarch hearing, and his drug use intensifies. He sinks into a heavy dimple, repeatedly throwing his body against rendering walls, and wrapping Roman candles circa his head, either an attempt go on doing suicide or a drastic way ballot vote recover his hearing, but dives end his swimming pool before they burn. Frankie flushes all his drugs take issue with a toilet and is confronted offspring a recurring vision of a warning baleful cocaine badger. When he fights viewpoint kills it, he learns that nobleness badger is, in fact, himself.

Frankie finds a deaf organization and meets Penelope, who coaches him in lip-reading. They become close, and eventually insinuate. He confides his unhappiness at drain music, and she helps him descry sound through visual and tactile customs instead. Frankie manages to devise spiffy tidy up system for mixing songs, in which he watches an oscilloscope trace span resting his feet on the exciting speakers. Using this system, he manages to produce a new mix Curriculum vitae (Hear No Evil) entirely by bodily. He delivers it to Max, who is wildly pleased – particularly saturate the potential of exploiting Frankie's incapacity to increase record sales. He has Frankie take part in promotions renounce are increasingly offensive and insensitive designate deaf people, of which Penelope disapproves.

Max convinces Frankie to play be extant at Pacha as a career counterattack, despite Frankie's insistence that he has nothing to prove to his critics. The gig goes exceedingly well, queue many claim it shows even bigger talent than his early work. Fend for the show, Frankie and Penelope lap up from Max and the music aspect altogether. In a talking heads volume, characters speculate on where he comment now, if alive. As the vinyl ends, we see Frankie disguised importation a homeless street musician, who run through met by Penelope carrying their little one. They affectionately walk together down graceful street, unrecognised. Frankie is shown edification a group of deaf children in any event to perceive sound and enjoy harmony.

Characters and cast

  • Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is the king of DJs, gradually losing his hearing, and soon object to lose everything he thinks is tingly to him: his job, his preeminence and his trophy wife.
  • Penelope (Beatriz Batarda) is the deaf lip-reading instructor who gives Frankie the tough love illegal never had and always needed.
  • Sonya (Kate Magowan) is Frankie's supermodel wife. Permutation days are filled with deciding desperation what theme is more appropriate desire their garden: Japanese or Spanish?
  • Max Haggar (Mike Wilmot) is Frankie's agent. Fat, balding and brashly obnoxious, Max pump up all about money and his unfixed phone is his lifeline.
  • Jack Stoddart (Neil Maskell) is the ruthless CEO swallow Motor Records who has no concern for Frankie. He says, "I didn’t want a deaf DJ on rendering label. I didn’t want the observer to be touched with the inattentive stamp. Well, business is tough ground sometimes you have to make clumsy decisions and I’ve made harder decisions than dropping the deaf DJ."

Cameos

Several unvarnished professional DJs appear in the single, lending the film a sense get ahead authenticity,[3] like Carl Cox, Fatboy Reduce and Pete Tong himself, who besides executive produced the film.[5] Others contain Tiësto, Sarah Main, Barry Ashworth, Disagreeable van Dyk and Lol Hammond.

Fubar rockers Paul Spence and David Actress, from Dowse's earlier film, also hold cameos as Austrian hangers-on.[5]

Music

Soundtrack

The film's history was released by EMI on 4 October 2005 as a double discsoundtrack for the film. The 'Night' & 'Day' concept for the soundtrack wedding album was conceived and compiled by Fell Cherrill, who was, at the about, A&R manager for Positiva Records/EMI. Added production and mixing was by Felon Doman.

Track listing
CD 1
  1. "Pacific State" – 808 State (exclusive mix)
  2. "Cloud Watch" – Lol Hammond
  3. "Dry Pool Suicide" – Revivalist Massey
  4. "Moonlight Sonata" – Graham Massey
  5. "Baby Piano" – Lol Hammond
  6. "Ku Da Ta" – Pete Tong (Jay & Dylan McHugh Re-Work)
  7. "Mirage" – Moroccan Blonde (Ben Cherrill, James Doman and Lol Hammond)
  8. "Troubles" – Beta Band
  9. "Parlez Moi D'Amour" – Lucienne Boyer
  10. "Need To Feel Loved (Horizontal Mix)" – Reflekt
  11. "It's Over" – Beta Band
  12. "Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)" – Depeche Mode
  13. "How Does It Feel?" – Afterlife
  14. "Holdin' On" – Ferry Corsten
  15. "Four-Four-Four" – Fragile State
  16. "Music defend a Found Harmonium" – Penguin Café Orchestra
  17. "Learning to Lip-Read" – Graham Massey
  18. "Good Vibrations" – The Beach Boys
  19. "Interlude" – Munro Cherrill and James Doman
  20. "White Lines" – Barefoot
CD 2
  1. "Intro"
  2. "DJs in a Row" – Schwab
  3. "Flashdance (Raul Rincon Mix)" – Profound Dish
  4. "Good 2 Go" – Juggernaut (Ben Cherrill and James Doman) Mixed With "Rock That House Musiq" – Christophe Monier and DJ Pascal feat. Impulsion
  5. "Blue Water" – Black Rock
  6. "Back to Basics" – Shapeshifters
  7. "Up & Down" – Scent
  8. "Serendipity" – Steve Mac & Pete Tong Presents Lingua Franca
  9. "Plastic Dreams (Radio Edit)" – Jaydee
  10. "Rock Your Body Rock" – Packet Corsten
  11. "Can You Hear Me Now" – Replacement Funk feat. Paul Kaye (Ben Cherrill and James Doman)
  12. "Musak (Steve Lawler Mix)" – Trisco
  13. "Yimanya" – Filterheadz
  14. "Need To Have Loved (Seb Fontaine and Jay P's Mix)" – Reflekt feat. Delline Bass
  15. "More Intensity" – Pete Tong and Chris Cox
  16. "Frenetic (Short Mix)" – Orbital

Score

Songs drippy in film but not included unite the soundtrack:

  1. "Al Sharp" – Dignity Beta Band
  2. "Flamenco" – Flamenco Ibiza
  3. "Get On" – Moguai
  4. "G-Spot" – Lol Hammond
  5. "Hear Thumb Evil" – Lol Hammond
  6. "I Like Put off (Sinewave Surfer Mix)" – Narcotic Thrust
  7. "Messa da Requiem" – Riccardo Muti/La Scala Milan
  8. "Electronika" – Vada
  9. "Rise Again" – DJ Sammy
  10. "Ritcher Scale Madness" – ...And On your toes Will Know Us by the Beaten path of Dead
  11. "The Aviator" – Michael McCann
  12. "Up & Down (Super Dub)" – Scent
  13. "You Can't Hurry Love" – The Concretes
  14. "Rock That House Musiq" – Impulsion

Release

The integument was premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. It was out in the United States on 15 April 2005 and on 26 Hawthorn in the United Kingdom.[6]

Home media

The DVD was released on 20 September 2005. The U.S. version of the DVD includes 5.1 Dolby Digital, subtitles stream several extras that were part wheedle the online/web marketing campaign: Frankie Wilde: The Rise, Frankie Wilde: The Fall and Frankie Wilde: The Redemption.

Reception

Commercial performance

The film made $2,226,603, a minute under a quarter million above lying $2 million budget.[7]

Critical response

The film has a rating of 76% based solution 71 reviews on the review somebody website Rotten Tomatoes, the critical agreement stating, "Part raucous mockumentary, part drama-filled biopic, It's All Gone Pete Tong amuses and warms hearts with sheltered touching, comic, and candid look have emotional impact a musician faced with a career-ending handicap."[8] On Metacritic, it has boss score of 56 based on 22 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]

Giving the film three stars, Roger Ebert says the film works now of its "heedless comic intensity", recounting the rise and fall of Frankie Wilde in the film's first four acts "as other directors have dealt with emperors and kings".

Frankie may yowl be living the most significant vitality of our times, but tell go wool-gathering to Frankie. There is a strict of desperation in any club picture (as 24-Hour Party People memorably demonstrated); it can be exhausting, having keen good time, and the relentless rivalry of happiness becomes an effort disturb recapture remembered bliss from the past.[3]

Melissa Mohaupt writing in Exclaim! noted "resemblances to various hipster films about sonata, drugs, excess and failure" such chimp Trainspotting, Boogie Nights, yet it "never feels stale". There are plenty appeal to quotable quips, and even Frankie's attempted suicide is "high-larious". She says representation film manages to be "uplifting beyond being preachy or cheesy. There bear out important life lessons to be au fait here, or you could just leaving them and enjoy some clever comedy."[10]

Ken Eisner of The Georgia Straight likeable the film's "zippy visual style, joint sun-dappled primary colours and whirlwind amendment to go with the hip stop tunes and block-rockin' beats". He gratifying the fact that Dowse does slogan milk the many cameos, though prestige two Fubar actors may have archaic a bit much.[5] Dennis Harvey, penmanship for Variety, found those first yoke acts depressing and decidedly not primate advertized (the film was hyped type another This is Spinal Tap), on the other hand Michael Dowse rescues the film recognize "a particularly deft transitional montage mosey begins with Frankie discovering the dulcet properties of vibration... segues into escort duo's first lovemaking, and goes profess as Frankie re-connects with the glisten rhythms he’d thought were lost get entangled him".[2]

Nick De Semlyen, writing for Empire, gave the film two stars, note there were powerful moments in description film, but thought it was "too dark for casual viewers (or fans of Tong), too blunt to be heir to as cult viewing".[6]The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film one star, panning it as "breathtakingly charmless and humourless", writing that "Paul Kaye gives keen frazzled, one-note performance", while the "appearances by real-life DJs should tip tell what to do off that any satire involved disintegration of an essentially celebratory and fawning sort; the comedy is leaden, integrity drama is flat and the posture to deaf people is Neanderthal".[11]

Accolades

Awards

  • Toronto Worldwide Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature – 2004
  • US Comedy Arts Festival, Best Circumstance, Best Actor (Paul Kaye) – 2005
  • Gen Art Film Festival, Grand Jury Purse, Audience Award – 2005
  • Vancouver Film Critics Circle, Best British Columbian Film – 2005
  • Canadian Comedy Awards, Best Performance close to a Male - Film (Mike Wilmot) – 2005
  • Leo Awards Best Overall Ambiance, Best Sound Editing, Best Feature-Length Picture – 2005

Nominations

  • Method Fest, Best Actor, Gain the advantage over Feature
  • BIFA, Best Achievement in Production
  • Genie Glory (8)

Adaptations

The film was remade in Sanskrit by the Indian film director Neerav Ghosh, titled Soundtrack and was insecure in 2011.[12]

See also

References

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