Capturing the enchanted world of the Glastonbury festival site in 1993, Robin Mahoney's freewheeling, split-screen doc, now remastered and recut, has bags of energy and wit.
The film is seduced by the crusties, jugglers, mushroom men and music but quite able to laugh at it all, too. The general lack of lucidity about the experience is perhaps troubling – one woman says it's all about "burnt potatoes and a bit of music"; another man says it's "about drinking cider and falling over".
But this is a pre-BBC-presenters-in-a-yurt era, before cultural re-evaluation and commercialisation had really taken hold, and so it becomes about the music and when Omar's There's Nothing Like This kicks in, or the Stereo MCs remind you what a tune Connected was before the mobile phone ads co-opted it, well, you just go with it and allow a touch of recall to waft you away.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/01/glastonbury-the-movie-in-flashback
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