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Mapplethorpe 2018
My feeling is basically, if you're going to show the pictures, you've already committed to having naughty stuff onscreen. Just do something interesting with the rest of it, too. I can't for the life of me understand who this tortured-artist, pop-song-montage take on Mapplethorpe is for, because it's too hardcore for the "Bohemian Rhapsody" crowd and too soft for the Mapplethorpe fans.
Maybe if you're really fascinated by people who look kinda like Patti Smith?
My full review: www.npr.org/2019/02/28/698622827/mapplethorpe-a-transgressive-artist-gets-an-aggressively-dull-biopic
