It Couldn't Happen Here(1988)

It Couldn't Happen Here is a 1987 musical film following Pet Shop Boys members Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant as they journey through England, caught between nostalgia and harsh reality. The pair navigate a landscape shaped by Margaret Thatcher's late-eighties policies, encountering familiar and unsettling figures along the way. Blending surreal imagery with the band's most iconic tracks, the film explores themes of memory, identity, and social upheaval during a turbulent era in British history. Equal parts dreamlike and darkly satirical, It Couldn't Happen Here uses the musicians' music and visual storytelling to examine the gap between childhood innocence and contemporary Britain.

Ansehen aufUS

Criterion Channelstream