Pete Doherty: Documentary “Stranger In My Own Skin” Coming Soon

With the distribution in Italy of the new film distribution company N Film, on October 1st “Stranger in my own skin”, the documentary on the life of the British rock star, Peter Dohertyleader of the Libertines, a band formed in 1997 and which in 2002 released the album “Up the Bracket” with which it achieved success.

In 2004 the singer and guitarist was removed from the band due to his addictions and constant legal problems, but at the end of the same year the band, after the second album, split up.

In the same year Doherty founded the Babyshambles who with a debut album and singles reaches a good position in the charts. But his recording and artistic career is always marked by Pete’s personal and relational difficulties.

Between 2005 and 2007, the artist was also in the gossip columns for his turbulent relationship with the top model Kate Moss.

In 2009 he began his solo career which currently includes three albums.

March 31, 2010 The Libertines are officially reborn who, after an intense live activity, in September 2015 released their third album “Anthems for Doomed Youth” which was followed in April of this year by the release of the new album “All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade”, followed by summer dates.

Some of this is told in the documentary “Stranger In My Own Skin”, a 2023 Franco-British production, defined as “an intimate portrait of the most influential musician of his generation and an immersion into his struggle with addiction” (to heroin).

The director and musician Katia of Life has shot over two hundred hours of footage of the artist, over a period of almost fifteen years. This raw and intimate material makes up the 90-minute “archival film,” which documents the descent into hell of the Libertines and Babyshambles singer-songwriter, just as his popularity was at its peak. Peter Doherty’s words and emotions tell the story of the artist’s struggle to overcome his demons.

These are the notes from director Katia de Vidas:

During our meetings, I felt the need to put into images the reasons that pushed Peter to throw himself into the chaotic life that characterizes him, as well as to bring out the creative process of the musician. I soon glimpsed the possibility of deepening certain topics, of feeding the interviews with spontaneous reactions based on the events and difficulties encountered alongside him. Peter’s universe is playful and complex, out of the ordinary and generous. He talks to me about himself, his ongoing creations and his projects. I want to follow him, and he agrees.
My main goal is to highlight the composer’s thinking and reflective work through free and instinctive conversations. These can only take shape in the present moment, and respond to situations we experience in real time, whether it is a backstage scene, the composition of a piece, the rehearsals of his groups or moments of drug consumption that gradually cut him off from contact with reality.

For the next few months N Film has already announced (with a schedule to be defined) the destruction of documentaries on At the drive in And Mars Volta (Omar & Cedric: if this gets weird).