Mapplethorpe is an ambitious biographical drama about photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, tracing the relationship between artistic ambition, sexuality and self-invention. Matt Smith commits fully to the role, and although the film can feel conventional, its recreation of New York’s art world and Mapplethorpe’s provocative work gives it visual interest.
Two closeted Muslim teens in Brooklyn struggle with their sexuality, inadvertently becoming targets in the War on Terror due to their secretive behavior.
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Mapplethorpe is an ambitious biographical drama about photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, tracing the relationship between artistic ambition, sexuality and self-invention. Matt Smith commits fully to the role, and although the film can feel conventional, its recreation of New York’s art world and Mapplethorpe’s provocative work gives it visual interest.
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