Love this film

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2016)

This film is a wonderful portrayal of what can lie behind the public persona of a famous person. In a different time you feel Liberace would have been a much happier man. He could have been more open about his sexuality in more recent times. Behind the Candelabra shows how hard it was for Liberace to come to terms with being gay.
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon give moving portrayals as Liberace and Scott Thorson, Liberace's secret lover.
I love the ending of this films, when Scott Thorson imagines the deceased Liberace floating up towards heaven. It is as if they are both being released from his struggle with their sexuality.