It's like a movie I saw once

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2004)

Let's see a reporter searching for a secret about a famous man. He interviews an old business partner in a hospital. An ex-wife in a bar she's singing at. There's a big public gathering where you see a large picture of this guy displayed on stage. We see flashbacks to a happy childhood.
This all reminded me of another movie. The whole time I felt like I was watching a badly written, drug addled, homoerotic, rock n' roll spin on "Citizen Kane".
Unlike that movie though I never figured out anything about who the central character was. The movie spends a lot of time talking about him without ever really saying anything. Then there is the big secret. "Rosebud" was a single word that explained so much about Charles Foster Kane's disappointments in life. The secret of what happened to Brain Slade is simply preposterous. He disappeared to become an Eighties pop singer that looks a lot like one of the dancers from the movie "Strictly Ballroom".
Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't impressed.