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Review:
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of the tragedies of the 1960s was that contractor Frank
Thorogood(Paddy Considine) was good friends with rock impresario
Tom Keylock(David Morrissey). The reason was that Tom gave some
work to Frank for members of the group he was managing, The
Rolling Stones, you may have heard of them.
So the job was to renovate the house of Brian Jones(Leo Gregory),
who had put the band together and currently was rapidly going down
the toilet both personally and professionally. However, he was
charismatic as hell, and soon seduces Frank.
The film focuses on Jones, because for the most part Frank is
boring. Brian Jones's life flashes back and forth through time,
starting from the end of the 1950s when he got a girl pregnant,
through his getting gigs for his band, his various adventures with
Mick Jagger(Luke de Woolfson) and Keith Richards(Ben Whishaw) to
his love affairs with actresses Anita Pallenberg(Monet Mazur)Anna
Wohlin(Tuva Novotny), and his prodigious use of various
intoxicants. He's not a nice guy.
Which is basically the theme of the movie. Wooley has been
fascinated with telling Jones' story for over a decade, and here
doesn't do a very good job. The only thing we learn is that Jones
is a talented, immature creepy little prick who may have actually
deserved what he got in the end. Dying was perhaps the best thing
to happen to his career.
The acting is fine, but all in all, we wonder whether or not this
was worth the effort. I'm not really sure one way or the other.
One thing is certain, the fact that the 'Stones refused to let
Wooley to use any of their music is a big minus. Don't bother.
Eric Lurio
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