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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021)★ 7.7/10

GB · 96 min · February 27, 2021

  • Documentary
  • Music
  • Biography

Directed by: Celeste Bell, Paul Sng

Written by: Celeste Bell, Zoë Howe

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey across the world and through her mother’s archives to reconcile their fraught relationship.

Directed by

Celeste BellPaul Sng

Written by

Celeste BellZoë Howe

Cast & crew

Celeste BellSelf, also narratorPoly StyreneSelf (archiveFootage)X-Ray SpexThemselves (archiveFootage)Hazel EmmonsSelf (voice)Don LettsSelf (voice)Rhoda DakarSelf (voice)Ifrah AhmedSelf (voice)Kinsi AbdullehSelf (voice)Pauline BlackSelf (voice)Bruno Aleph WizardSelf (voice)Helen McCookerybookSelf (voice)Vivienne WestwoodSelf (voice)YouthSelf (voice)Lora LogicSelf (voice)Paul DeanSelf (voice)Rina VerganoSelf (voice)Falcon StuartSelf (archiveFootage)Jonathan RossSelf (voice)John Cooper ClarkeSelf (archiveFootage)Thurston MooreSelf (voice)David BowieSelf (archiveFootage)Gina BirchSelf (voice)Vivien GoldmanSelf (voice)Lucy O'BrienSelf (voice)Ana Da SilvaSelf (voice)Kathleen HannaSelf (voice)Jack AirportSelf (archiveFootage)Neneh CherrySelf (voice)John RobbSelf (voice)Adrian BellSelf (voice)YashodaSelf, Poly Styrene's friend and bodyguard (voice)G.T. MooreSelf (voice)Ruth NeggaPoly Styrene (voice)John LydonSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)Holly WoodlawnSelf (uncredited) (archiveFootage)