What marks same-sex relationships apart from different-sex ones is the emphasis here, with shades of Narcissus recast within an austerely stylized, hypermodern urban environment.
You have to commit to an intense two hours of ’80s sounds in this breathlessly innovative biopic, which takes on a pair of key singer-songwriters of the late Soviet era.
The film’s humanistic and sometimes alarmingly funny flow is doubly surprising coming from documentary veteran Kent Jones, who previously made cinematic studies of filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Elia Kazan, and Val Lewton, with Hitchcock/Truffaut the best-known.
In the last three years or so, astronomers have tentatively proposed that the anomalous dimming of Tabby’s Star in the Cygnus constellation might be caused by an “unnatural” structure.
