Title: Enjoyed the content, hated the direction
Product review: A biography on cockney, handicapped, original "Stiff" recording artist Ian Dury, a forgotten but loveable writer of "sex & drugs & rock & roll"? Sounds enticing for a music historian and lover of rock music like myself... especially of New Wave, a genre from my formative high school years. Unfortunately, I hated this movie!This film is practically unwatchable.It is too stylish, too daring and plays like a wild, MTV/Duran Duran music video to properly act as any kind of cinematic biography. I'm all for a director taking bold chances but Ian Dury's story should outshine the manner in which his story is told.This one was an unnecessary [way too much] style over substance.
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