The Shock of the Future

It really does. The acting folks here are very good the main actress Alma Jodorowsky has the first name of Alma which is Spanish for soul and she has plenty of that in this film so do all the other main actors; she is also the granddaughter of Jewish-Ukrainian Argentine film director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jean-Mi played by the excellent Philippe Rebbot is ace here. Her tall warbling lady friend who comes to sing is also very good. And American Geoffrey Carey also excellent

This is quite clearly an indie film. Small budget filmed in two or three rooms practically no outside shooting.

And the director/makers clearly love(s) its topic i.e. The appearance of electronic music in youth culture.

• Now I am going to get a little technical here: it seems to posit the fact that electronic music started at the turn of the 80s and that prior to that there was just ROCK and it was dirty alcohol-fuelled brutal etc etc well yes all that was there but there was electronic music see the Berlin school in Germany produced Tangerine Dream which is mentioned here through posters. It had Ash Ra Tempel Klaus Schulze and do we need to even mention the name of Kraftwerk which starts in 1970 really and makes the kind of music this young lady is gawping at at the end of the decade as if it had never happened.

• In France there was Jean-Michel Jarre who made albums right through the 70s etc etc. So the premise here is actually wrong; a sort of false chronological dichotomy. Mentioning The Human League as if it were something Ex Nihilo is a tad disingenuous if it were done on purpose. So this composer the young composer lady is kind of reinventing the wheel in a way.

• Anyway none of this matters but it needs to be said. There was Rock AND Electronic music this was true in the 70s the 80s as it is in the 2020s ...

• The film here is deep down about any artist poet painter musician filmmaker composer at the start of a career plagued with doubt passionate yet bumping against The Machine the status quo abusive players on the business side and finding it difficult to keep an appetite for what really drives them. So that part of the film is really well done and anyone involved in creating work will resonate with this.

All in all one would be well-advised to watch this it is really quite good and uplifting; it is also fun overall.

PS nice touches include a huge Genesis Live banner in one of the studios; Patti Smith Horses LP etc etc.