In Search of Posthumous Adulation
di Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times
“All I want is beer and damage,” asserts Darby Crash (played by Shane West), the punk-rock flameout and frontman of the Germs, near the beginning of Rodger Grossman’s adoring biopic, “What We Do Is Secret.”
What Crash really wanted, however, was posthumous adulation, and Mr. Grossman does his best to oblige. Focusing on the five years between the singer’s banishment from high school and his heroin-assisted suicide in 1980, the filmmaker sketches a virtually parentless, Nietzsche-reading teenager who forms a band out of boredom and a desire for attention. [...]
di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (1636 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 Agosto 2008
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