The 2018 biopic of infamous gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith is now getting a Director's Cut reissue following the tepid response the studio cut got in its original release
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I've always had a love-hate relationship with him and his work. One one hand, he fetished Black men in an extremely disgusting way, on the other he turned the salacious into art- I've seen prints of his work and he has a beautiful way with composition and framing a shot.
*whisper* I liked it. Maybe just because I'd never seen anything like it. And parts of it were hilarious. When I think of that guy in his John Philips drag, trying to drunkenly roller skate with his guitar...hilarious.
It was entertaining for sure but I found the whole glorifying the chaos and dysfunction of BJM as somehow being the pinnacle of artistic integrity and authentic incredibly irritating.
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I can't even give this movie a chance with that thing looking at me tbh.
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Maybe just because I'd never seen anything like it. And parts of it were hilarious.
When I think of that guy in his John Philips drag, trying to drunkenly roller skate with his guitar...hilarious.
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