Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A young student and musical enthusiast of Zoroastrian parentage attaches himself to a band of water-treading peers and creates a new pop aesthetic based on Beatle harmonising, keyboard performance style and lyrical excess. But his ambition to define himself as a solo artist and promiscuous sexual reinvention threatens to break up the adopted family.
Review:
Pacy, vividly recreated rock-opic, with an intelligent central performance that just about manages to let you forget the teeth (the actor's jaw is not the same as Mercury's, making him look like Dick Emery's Indian cleric). The triumph of the piece, however, which name checks all the notable Queen songs pretty effectively, is Gwilym Lee's Brian May, all but indistinguishable. The climactic Wembley performance is a rousing (start and) finish, too.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A young student and musical enthusiast of Zoroastrian parentage attaches himself to a band of water-treading peers and creates a new pop aesthetic based on Beatle harmonising, keyboard performance style and lyrical excess. But his ambition to define himself as a solo artist and promiscuous sexual reinvention threatens to break up the adopted family.
Review:
Pacy, vividly recreated rock-opic, with an intelligent central performance that just about manages to let you forget the teeth (the actor's jaw is not the same as Mercury's, making him look like Dick Emery's Indian cleric). The triumph of the piece, however, which name checks all the notable Queen songs pretty effectively, is Gwilym Lee's Brian May, all but indistinguishable. The climactic Wembley performance is a rousing (start and) finish, too.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Tom Hollander
Synopsis:
A young student and musical enthusiast of Zoroastrian parentage attaches himself to a band of water-treading peers and creates a new pop aesthetic based on Beatle harmonising, keyboard performance style and lyrical excess. But his ambition to define himself as a solo artist and promiscuous sexual reinvention threatens to break up the adopted family.
Review:
Pacy, vividly recreated rock-opic, with an intelligent central performance that just about manages to let you forget the teeth (the actor's jaw is not the same as Mercury's, making him look like Dick Emery's Indian cleric). The triumph of the piece, however, which name checks all the notable Queen songs pretty effectively, is Gwilym Lee's Brian May, all but indistinguishable. The climactic Wembley performance is a rousing (start and) finish, too.