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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché [Opens Feb. 2 at Trylon Cinema located at 2820 East 33rd Street in Minneapolis, Minn. and available Feb. 4 on various VOD platforms.] Celeste Bell and Paul Sng's intriguing, in-depth, insightful, thought-provoking, entertaining, 89-minute documentary that chronicles the struggles in trying to raise her daughter Celeste and dealing with cancer, her tumultuous life, and successful career of inspirational, bipolar-afflicted British Anglo-Somali punk rock singer Poly Styrene (aka Marianne Elliott-Said), who was the front woman for the X-Ray Spex band during the 1970s, and consists of archival film footage, photographs, diary excerpts narrated by Ruth Negga, poems such as Half Caste and I Wanna Go Back to Africa, and interview snippets with daughter Celeste Bell, sister Hazel Emmons, former husband Adrian Bell, writers Vivien Goldman and Lucy O'Brien, singers/songwriters Neneh Cherry and Helen McCookerybook, musicians G. T. Moore and Ana Da Silva, DJ/filmmaker Don Letts, fashion designer/activist Vivienne Westwood, producer Youth, friend Yashoda, activist Ifrah Ahmed, musician/writer John Robb, writer/promoter Rina Vergano, broadcaster Jonathan Ross, poet John Cooper Clarke, and singers Thurston Moore, Pauline Black, Rhoda Dakar, Lora Logic, Gina Birch, Kathleen Hanna, and Paul Dean.
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