U2’s 1997 concert in the aftermath of the Bosnian War is relived and remixed from archive footage, original audio and new testimonials, writes Adrian Pennington.
There’s often a point when making a documentary when the filmmaker finds the key to telling the story. In Kiss The Future it was a conversation director Nenad Cicin-Sain had with The Edge.
“Nenad always said we needed to bring U2 organically into the story but how do we do that?” said the film’s editor Eric Burton. “It was during his interview with the Edge, that informed the next interview with Bono, where it clicked. Nenad noticed that they were talking about punk rock and the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and about how bands like The Clash influenced their lyrics; how they didn’t want to be a pop band but a band making music with a message.”
While Burton didn’t explicitly say it, the concern was...
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