CREEMEDIA
Despite its numerous failures (not the least of which is a complete lack of in-depth characterization), this electic stew-brew of Apocalypse Now (rock-as-spectacle), The Young And The Restless (rock-as-melodrama) and Ziggy Stardust (rock-as-saviour) makes for good entertainment but, unfortunately, bad rock n roll.
CREEMEDIA
DEPARTMENTS
NEUROSES
THE ROSE
Directed by Mark Rydell (T wentieth Century-Fox)
by Jeffrey Morgan
Despite its numerous failures (not the least of which is a complete lack of in-depth characterization), this electic stew-brew of Apocalypse Now (rock-as-spectacle), The Young And The Restless (rock-as-melodrama) and Ziggy Stardust (rock-as-saviour) makes for good entertainment but, unfortunately, bad rock n roll.
Not that everybody involved didnt give it their best shot—Im sure they did. But lets face it; rock n roll, by its very volatile nature, does not allow itself to be transferred onto film as fictional drama. What we need is a fictional rock n roll movie that hits as hard as Meredith Hunters death does in Gimme Shelter (a documentary whose structure The Rose owes more than a little to).