Basquiat

USA 1996, 106 minutes
Dir. Julian Schnabel
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama / Arts & Artists, Independent

Topics: African-American, Period 1980s, Biopic, Drugs & Alcohol.

Feat. Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro, Parker Posey

Aroview: The director sends a post-mortem loveletter to his friend and contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquiat, a celebrated but fragile New York black artist who blossomed under the auspice of Andy Warhol, but struggled to deal with fame and eventually OD'ed in 1987.

David Bowie as Warhol leads an impossibly hip roster of thesps. Supposedly made in the style of the artist - colourful, ramshackle, impulsive - but the correlation could be extended to include docile and unfocused.

NZ International Film Festival 1997

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4 stars (Very Good) From humble beginnings & living rough on the streets of New York City, to living it up with the rich and famous. Finding his sudden fame and new high society friends to be a world he doesn't belong in he pays the ultimate price of success, with his life. ~GenXGirl