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Punk Syndrome, The

Documentary, Music

The Punk Syndrome is a film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami, are mentally handicapped and they play their music with a lot of attitude and pride. Read more …

We follow these professional musicians on their journey from obscurity to popularity. We watch them fight, fall in love and experience strong emotions. We witness long days in the recording studio and on tour. They laugh, cry, drink and fight over who gets to sit in the front on the tour bus. Then it's time to make up and go talk to people in the audience and tell them how great their band is.


The critical consensus

There’s nothing more anti-establishment as four disabled and fiery individuals literally sticking it to the institutions which they’ve been surrounded by, making The Punk Syndrome a unique and touching depiction of some truly passionate outsider artists.

****(*)Nick Herd, The List, 25/01/2013

What shines through most strongly, though, is both the sense of camaraderie and the personal benefits each band member takes from the experience. It also reinforces why punk, in its purest form, continues to be the music of choice for society’s outsiders.

***(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 31/01/2013

A moving, honest film full of big characters, big issues (the right to a full, dignified life) and a bold heart.

***(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 31/01/2013

Candid and compassionate. Loud, too.

***(*)(*)David Parkinson, Empire Online, 28/01/2013

As a piece of rock verite, it’s sympathetic, patchy, occasionally discomfiting, but always honest.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 03/02/2013

A very likable, relaxed film.

Philip French, The Observer, 03/02/2013

No masterpiece, but sensitive and extremely alive to life's amusing idiosyncrasies.

***(*)(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 31/01/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow on Sunday February 10, 2013. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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