Director: Franc Roddum Release: UK - 2nd November 1979
Gross: SEK 1,678,408 (Sweden)
Gross: SEK 1,678,408 (Sweden)
Quadrophenia was made in 1979, 14 years after the date it was set in. In London, 1965 there was a strong hatred between the Mods and the Rockers, and this film depicts the lives they lead and real events that happened within a fictional story.
I think the audience of this film is aimed at youth, particulary youth from the 60s and 70s as they can relate to it most. I can't see older people watcthing this film who didn't live in this generation and it's quite a cult film. On the IMDB almost 7,000 people have voted Quadrophenia to have a rating of 7.1/10 which is quite high. A high percentage of the votes were from Male users and not from the US which I thought was fitting as its quite a male orientated film. The 2nd highest was people aged between 30-44.
Reviewers on IMDB are saying that the film is almost too lifelike and they didn't like it when they first saw it because of that. One man said 'I hated this film when I saw it as a teenager back in 1979. The reason was the movie was realistic--too realistic! I identified (in some respects) with the main character Jimmy, and his life was bleak and depressing. Seeing it over 20 years later, I love it! It's a superb mix of the 1960s British "Angry Young Men" films, the Who's great album and 1979 sensibilities.' I find this really interesting as he was an American reviewer and this is a very British film, so this shows that this youth culture of the mods and rockers was a worldwide (well at least UK and USA) trend.
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