Moi, Christiane F (2022) – Claire Laborey.

A fascinating discourse over the cultural/sociological import of a German teenager's unexpurgated experiences as controversially precocious heroin addict/protagonist Christiane F. Both the epoch-defining autobiographical book and the subsequent, appreciably gritty film ultimately became an international phenomenon. Laborey's earnest, insightful, informationally dense documentary is winningly replete with some especially compelling period news footage. Well made, and appreciably humane in its outlook, Moi, Christiane F covers a lot of emotive, sociopolitical ground in under an hour, providing a cerebral deep-dive into the social tumult of post-war Berlin/West Germany, and the extraordinary, ultimately melancholic life of this remarkable young woman's terrible battle with addiction. The increasingly displaced youth of Berlin, mirroring the similarly disenfranchised plight of London's urban teenagers of the 1970s, oppressed in the concrete, inhumane colossi of new build Tower Blocks, forced out into the streets to discover their own identities in an increasingly repressive state.