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Movie poster: Radio On (1979)
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1979 · 104 min Drama Mystery Music
5.8 / 10 · TMDB

A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1979
Country Germany, United Kingdom
Genre Drama, Mystery, Music
Director Chris Petit
Runtime 104 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.8/10 (26 votes)

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Director Christopher Petit constructs the film as a cinematic puzzle, relying on the grammar of the road movie and visual poetry. It explores not so much a mystery of death, but an existential void, communicated through long static shots, radio static, and concrete landscapes.

What lingers after the final frame is a meditative, hypnotic sense of melancholy, where plot gives way to mood and sound. The experience is less about solving a crime and more about feeling the chill of a specific time and place. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Chris Petit

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