The feature-length film, conceptualised and directed by award-winning Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frias, documents the Essex band’s three sold-out shows at the Foro Sol Stadium in Mexico City on September 21, 23 and 25, 2023, and uses nearly 200,000 fans’ fervent connection with the band as a window into Depeche Mode's global influence, with what the film-makers say is "a powerful tribute to the unbreakable connection between music, tradition and the human spirit.”
Depeche Mode: M captures the band onstage during their Memento Mori Tour in Mexico City, where they played in front of an estimated 200,000 fans in September 2023. The concert film — featuring interstitials and archival footage from those shows — was directed by Fernando Frias, the Mexican filmmaker behind the renowned 2019 movie I’m No Longer Here.
The film will serve as “a window into the band’s timeless global influence, and a powerful tribute to the unbreakable connection between music, tradition and the human spirit,” the band added. Depeche Mode: M will arrive in theaters later this year.
Depeche Mode’s tour in support of their 15th studio album, Memento Mori, wrapped up in April 2024. “Melancholy has long been an important part of the Depeche Mode experience… they’ve specialized in vulnerability. That openness, a sense of surrender, is the essential ingredient to Depeche Mode now,” Rolling Stone wrote of the album, which followed the death of band member Andy “Fletch” Fletcher.
“So it’s not surprising that the group, whose two members are now in their 60s, titled the album Memento Mori — a friendly reminder in Latin that you will (nay, must!) die someday — and they picked it while Fletch was still alive… Acknowledging mortality defines much of Memento Mori, but it never feels heavy-handed or even all that sullen. Some of the tracks even sound upbeat.”
