1986 · drama · biography · music
Sid and Nancy
Directed by Alex Cox1h 54m1986
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Our read: Sid and Nancy (1986) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · biography · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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