celeste bell: | find a kind of. solace in retracing her footsteps.leste found herself the keeper of her mother's legacy — a role she initially resisted — but in this terrifically intimate documentary, we find her sifting through the pages of poly styrene's life — from her incarceration in a psychiatric institution to her time with the hare krishna movement and her growing relationship with her daughter, with whom she worked on her acclaimed album, generation indigo. i want to go back to africa and find my heritage. with rare archive material and diary entries read by ruth negga, i am a cliche — which takes its title from one of poly�*s songs — is fascinating fare, offering a thrilling and sometimes heartbreaking account of a trailblazer who was hailed in tony parsons' and julie burchill�*s obituary of rock and roll: the boy looked atjohnny as punk�*s reigning queen, blessed with the finest imagination of her generation. do you trust white people? laugh. on the strength of this doc, that's no overstatement, although the film manages to balance the cul

cliche a moving and engaging documentary presented and co—directed by the punk icon�*s daughter, celeste bellody�*s looking desperately to our time where they want identify with things themselves. and that's what that's about. born from anglo—somali parentage in 1957, marianne joan elliott—said was a young wannabe fashion designer and pop reggae singer whose life was transformed by seeing in early sex pistols gig on hastings pier. reinventing herself as poly styrene, she put in ad in the paper for musical young punks and formed x—ray spex, who had a string of hits like germfree adolescents. and, the day the world turned day—glo. but it was the anthemic i'll bondage yours which became poly styrene�*s battlecry. a thrillingly catchy burst of rage against oppression which would inspire a generation of post punk—riot girls. i find a kind of solace in retracing herfootsteps. when poly styrene died at the age of 53, celeste found herself the keeper of her mother's legacy, a role she initially resisted. but in this terrifically intimate documentary we find her sifting through the pages of poly styre

celeste bell: | find a kind of. solace in retracing her footsteps.is terrifically intimate documentary, we find her sifting through the pages of poly styrene's life — from her incarceration in a psychiatric institution to her time with the hare krishna movement and her growing relationship with her daughter, with whom she worked on her acclaimed album, generation indigo. i want to go back to africa and find my heritage. with a rare archive material and diary entries read by ruth negga, i am a cliche — which takes its title from one of poly�*s songs — is fascinating fare, offering a thrilling and sometimes heartbreaking account of a trailblazer who was hailed in tony parsons' and julie burchill�*s obituary of rock and roll: the boy looked atjohnny as punk�*s reigning queen, blessed with the finest imagination of her generation. do you trust white people? laugh. 0n the strength of this doc, that's no overstatement, although the film manages to balance the cultural impact of poly styrene's public image with more personal tales, with very affecting resul