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Blank Generation

1980

Drama / Music

Blank Generation

1980

Drama / Music

Available in: 720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay

27% AUDIENCE · 50 ratings

4.8/10 · 515

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Plot summary

Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.

Director

Ulli Lommel

Top cast

Peter Beard as Party Guest

Suzanna Love as Lizzy

Ulli Lommel as Hoffritz

Carole Bouquet as Nada

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

722.63 MB

1204*720

English 2.0

Not Rated

24 fps

1 hr 18 min

Seeds ...

1.31 GB

1792*1072

English 2.0

Not Rated

24 fps

1 hr 18 min

Seeds 7

Comments 3

kristerlund 567 days ago

With Richard Hell, one of the punk icons of the US

thoughtcrime69er 1498 days ago

Sid and Nancy go off script.

OzzieCritic 1699 days ago

Part of the soundtrack of my misspent youth! Thanks Freeman! :)

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IMDb reviews

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7 / 10

This got 3-1/2 stars for its entertainment value

R T

This got 3-1/2 stars for its entertainment value, not cinematic quality. Extremely amateurish production and story, but hell, it was fun and the music is…

4 / 10

What to say about a 78-minute film that

eric b

What to say about a 78-minute film that feels a half-hour too long? "Blank Generation" (not to be confused with 1976's "The Blank Generation," an underground…

What to say about a 78-minute film that feels a half-hour too long? "Blank Generation" (not to be confused with 1976's "The Blank Generation," an underground concert movie) is wholly incompetent as filmmaking. Director Ulli Lommel and his co-writers (including star Richard Hell) have no idea how to structure a narrative arc. What is exposition? How does one pace a story and build drama? These are esoteric questions for this bumbling crew. We are roughly thrown into the sleazy end of Manhattan, and eventually deduce that punk-rocker Hell is playing an autobiographical character named Billy. He has a volatile relationship with a gorgeous TV interviewer (Carole Bouquet). She is known as "Nada" (ooh, so nihilist). She regularly turns exasperated with Billy and kicks him out of her flat, but always takes him back. Except this time, she returns to her German ex-boyfriend Hoffritz (Lommel, who is no more impressive as an actor). What passes for suspense in this film is whether Billy and Nada will reconcile. Meanwhile, Billy is becoming disenchanted with rock 'n' roll, even though his handlers assure him that he's headed for platinum-level success. (Uh, have they heard his music?) Hell's idea of acting is to mischievously bulge his eyes. Bouquet is a stiff, and has a thick French accent that's barely decipherable. (Realistically, how could this woman get an English-language job on television?) The movie lurches from scene to scene of sloppy quarreling, inserting a music performance where possible. When Lommel wants to pull back and breathe, he drops in a reflective moment where Billy walks around or thinks about something while jazzy music plays on the soundtrack. He also has an obvious infatuation with Jean-Luc Godard, so he makes ridiculous attempts to add meta-commentary about cinema. It's a mess. The film's only virtues are outside its fiction. The elusive Andy Warhol flashes onscreen as an interview guest, though the build-up suggests his role will be much larger. He mumbles a variant on his "superstar" philosophy and is gone. There's also a fun cameo by avant-garde violinist Walter Steding (spelled "Steading" in the credits). Most importantly, we're snuck into legendary punk club CBGB's during its heyday and see thrilling onstage footage of Richard Hell & the Voidoids (songs: "Liars Beware," "Love Comes in Spurts" and of course "Blank Generation"). Hell is also shown recording vocals for "New Pleasure" in the studio. No doubt, this material is essential viewing for anyone interested in the New York punk scene. But if you fast-forward through everything else, you'll scarcely miss a thing.

2 / 10

I really hate it when people decide to

R T

I really hate it when people decide to review movies that they didn't even finish viewing, neglecting to give the film its fair chance before digesting and…

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