Glittery, sexy, and great music to boot

Rating: 10/10 (16 July 1999)

From the time Jack Fairy looks at himself in the mirror till Arthur and Curt romp on a rooftop, this film glittered. Literally. I saw some of the techniques used here and decided to steal them for music videos and films in the future. The feathers floating all over the Lyceum audience...a bisexual lizardman...who came up with this stuff? The Glam-rock soundtrack was excellent (it'll be living on my turntable for a month or two). I couldn't believe that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ewan MacGregor did all their own singing--that's just incredible. And someone please cast Ewan as Kurt Cobain--it's too perfect a match to miss. As a huge Bowie fan, I would point out little things that made this film a work of fiction rather than a bio-pic. But they were so gauzily veiled that it was easily to tell what REALLY happened. I liked the small character of Jack Fairy best of all--it takes a drag queen to make a special picture, doesn't it?