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Pascal Signolet
1998 - 52 min - Vidéo - France

This is the first portrait devoted to the group that revolutionised music in the 1990s. By teaching spleen to the machines, Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons invented a new sound.
Melancolic, obsessional, Portishead’s music has become the ideal sound track for urban spleen.
But, while the group goes from success to success, filling the Zénith, its craftsmen rarely expose themselves. Until this documentary, endowed with a true musical sensitivity.
With a really dazzling virtuosity, Pascal Signolet’s camera clings to the group’s incredible wealth of sound. Intense concerts, intimate rehearsals and interviews reveal little by little their universe in which mystery goes hand in hand with down-to-earth.
For the first time, Beth Gibbons agrees to express herself in front of a camera !