England is Mine

How Soon Is Now?

Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay, Jack Lowden, Jodie Com
Director: Mark Gill
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Running Time: 94 minutes

Synopsis: The story of iconic Smiths frontman, Morrissey, is brought to powerful, poetic life in the pitch perfect biopic, England Is Mine, which will hit Australian cinemas in limited release on March 15.

Before he gave breathy, stunningly disaffected life to era-defining anthems like How Soon Is Now, This Charming Man, and Panic, Smiths frontman, Steven Patrick Morrissey – for whom one name would ultimately be enough – was an angry, defiant teenager with his own strikingly fashion-forward sense of style. Mark Gill's brilliantly rendered biopic, England Is Mine, introduces us to this very Morrissey (played with the perfect mix of angst-ridden despair and fiery self-belief by Dunkirk's Jack Lowden), who we see shooting off vicious reviews of local bands to music magazines while his own on-stage persona slowly begins to reveal itself. After meeting encouraging art student, Linder Sterling (Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay) – who sees the true potential that lurks within the sulky teen – Morrissey hooks up with young musician (and eventual guitarist for eighties-born rockers, The Cult), Billy Duffy (Adam Lawrence), and embarks on his first musical adventure via their band The Nosebleeds. Honest, provocative, and quietly revelatory, England Is Mine is a keenly observed cinematic portrait of the artist as a young man, detailing the unlikely creation of one of the UK's most divisive, inspiring, and unapologetically political pop music icons.

England is Mine
Release Date: March 15th, 2018