Directed by Julian Schnabel (an interesting painter & artsy director)
painting by Schnabel
Really cool concept/images of Basquiat's studio (also great hairstyles).A hugely famous cast, including Benicio del Toro (who I was confusing with some famous director but is actually mainly a really well-known actor), David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, the list goes on.
It was gratifying to see such an accomplished (and attractive) cast, and some of the characters were presented as fairly colorful and interesting, if not quite sympathetic, but it was overall a pretty disappointing production. None of the characters, most notably Basquiat himself, were quite developed enough to be truly captivating. The movie only showed a brief span of B's career, or else the entire span, but skipping through a lot of steps and really compressing it. It was very depressing, showing the downsides to artistic fame and emphasizing B's drug habit.
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