541th Review: OK, we get that it's a good performance & well directed, but the middle 40 minutes are stupefyingly boring....

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2013)

BTC is not a likable film - it may have performances that required hard work to carry off, and capture the excess, but it is about as deadening from minute 45 - 65 - a third of the film - as it'll possible to be - a good first third, and a good last 15 minutes are destroyed by the absolute meanderings of an expansive middle.
It's exploration of the relationship is done in a high camp style - it's all about glitter and sex, and the film makes both protagonists out to be performers 100% of the time.
Though it does capture much of the camp of LIberace it is still a pretty boring view - it's not that we can't or don't want to connect with the characters - it's that everyone is trying so hard to convince us of the weirdness that overreaching and overacting take over at every stage. I just couldn't find any enjoyment in it - and was massively bored in the middle.