In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
Writer/Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120879/
Watched online, ok print.
34 songs in the Soundtracks, many performed by the cast with their own voices.
I have EI (b. '62) concerts from '94 to '13. Oddly, he does not glam up in this film; he plays a record exec/manager.
Reading the IMDb trivia, this is sort of based on Bowie, but the Curt Wild character (EM) is not supposed to be Kurt Cobain. He's based on Iggy Pop?
I was never interested in glam rock, so this doesn't spike my interest.
CB is the reporter who apparently had a sexual encounter with the JRM glammer and/or the EM grunger, and was coincidentally tapped to do the decade-later follow-up story.
I don't understand what there is to like about this because the music and the subculture is not to my taste. But reading reviews in IMDb illuminate nothing; they rave without specifics, although some like the inclusion of Oscar Wilde, and some like the parallel of reporter investigating public figure as in Citizen Kane ('41).
Rated 7.0 (31,062)
distr. Miramax, dir. Haynes; 5
