This is the bizarre, complicated and, above all, wonderful world of Liberace

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2013)

"I'm surprised that these people like something this gay," says Matt Damon's wide-eyed, country boy Scott Thorson as he watches Liberace for the first time.
We share in his bafflement when he is told that the adoring audience don't have the slightest inkling of his sexuality.
This is the bizarre, complicated and, above all, wonderful world of Liberace.
Behind the Candelabra was released as a television movie through HBO in America but comes to us on the big screen and isn't the biggest possible screen just what Liberace would have wanted? Michael Douglas gives an incredible performance as the flamboyant pianist and revels in the wigs, rings, diamonds and furs that make up his stage show.
Eschewing the standard biopic route, the film tells the story of Liberace's relationship with Thorson who became his chauffeur, lover and even, the film alleges, almost became his adopted son... www.ravechild.co.uk