2001 · musical · drama
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell1h 35m2001
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Our read: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive musical · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- signature
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