To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Swan Song (12A)
Directed by Todd Stephens
★★★★
LEGENDARY actor Udo Kier gives the performance of a lifetime in this touching and bittersweet drama which writer-director Todd Stephens has described as his love letter to disappearing gay culture in the United States.
Kier stars as “Mister Pat” Pitsenbarger, a renowned and flamboyant former hairdresser who comes out of retirement, as well as his nursing home in Sandusky, Ohio, to fulfil his greatest client’s dying wish to style her final hairdo. The character was inspired by a legendary figure in Stephens’s hometown in this, his third film about Sandusky.
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