curt wilde

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2000)

This movie isn't just about glam rock, really. Half of it's dialogue owes to Oscar Wilde--"The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Decay of Lying" in particular--and it's really concerned with comparing the decadent, aesthetic, and very gay late 1890s to the decadent, aesthetic and very gay 1970s. Whether this is "true to life" is irrelevant. Haynes is brilliant in comparing these two epochs of color and Hellenism, attributing them, correctly, to bi-and homosexual influences, and celebrating their freedom, style, and imagination. Vogue!