Synopsis
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
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Cast
- Michael GambonSelf (voice)
- Hetty BowerSelf - Interviewee
- Keith AllenSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Steve JonesSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Brian NicholsonSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Bill NighySpoken Quotations (voice)
- Andy SerkisSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Imelda StauntonSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Julien TempleSpoken Quotations (voice)
- Juno TempleSpoken Quotations (voice)
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
Temple's film is refreshingly free of cliché. A very heady experience. - 80
The Telegraph
A dizzying collage of all the changes in London’s social and architectural fabric since light was first trained through celluloid. - 80
Time Out London
This is a portrait of cycles and change. But the mood of the film suggests that we should be impressed that this ever-growing, ever-changing city of ours is still chasing after new versions of the modern. - 80
Total Film
You’re left marvelling at London’s capacity for renewal and reinvention. - 70
Village Voice
Temple and editor Caroline Richards demonstrate that the London mob (it can seem like there's been only one mob through the ages) time and again rescues the city from its complacency—and safeguards it from the suffocation of class-bound England.