1996 · drama · biopic
Basquiat
Directed by Julian Schnabel1h 47m1996
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Our read: Basquiat (1996) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · biopic entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / biopic, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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