The first full trailer for Mapplethorpe, the upcoming film about the famous gay photographer who died of complications from AIDS in the late ’80s, has been released.
Matt Smith (The Crown) stars as Robert Mapplethorpe in the biopic, which first debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York earlier this year.
The film centers on Mapplethorpe’s relationship will fellow up-and-coming artist Patti Smith (Marianne Rendón) which was also described at length in Smith’s fantastic 2010 memoir, Just Kids.
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Much of Mapplethorpe’s work mirrored themes of his own sexual liberation, and his rise to fame coincided with the rise of the AIDS epidemic.
“In Church I found God, and now Polaroid led me to the Devil,” Mapplethorpe’s character says in the film as he shoots some of his now-famous provocative nudes.
Mapplethorpe arrives in theaters March 1.
Watch the trailer below:
Josh447
This one’s gonna be good
Donston
Not that the “tragic gay” trope and stories focused on the AIDS epidemic should just completely go away, but it does seem like Hollywood is completely uninterested in making movies set in modern times that center around homosexual/same-sex leaning/in a same-sex relationship/gay characters. We got the cute but rather toothless and personality-less “Love, Simon” and “The Kid Are Alright”, which largely focused on a hetero affair. I will watch for the Matt Smith factor.
Vince
It’s funny that movies are still a long ways away from showing affection or as you say are pretty toothless. Yet TV has been the exact opposite. QAF, looking, etc.
QueerTruth
This is a biography movie. It doesn’t fall into the same sphere.
Kangol
Totally with you on this. They cannot seem to grasp the rich and diverse array of queer lives out there/here, and go with biopics, tragedies, coming out stories, etc. Let’s see if they remove the depth of Mapplethorpe’s life. Like, will they include the black models he often photographed and slept with, including the one behind his iconic and often criticized image “The Man in the Polyester Suit”? Will they film that being photographed or give the backstory?
Donston
It does seem as if biopics, coming out/self-discovery stories and tragedies are still the go-to’s. The biopics tend to be watered-down or sensational. The coming out/self-discovery stories tend to feel safe and pandering. And the tragedies are just redundant at this point.
Virpilosus
What an excellent trailer. It made me really want to see the film.
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bishonen91
i wonder if the movie will touch on his fetishsizing of black men
Wicked Dickie
From the preview, it looks like he has some type of relationship with that black model.
Kangol
I asked this above; it was a central part of his personal and artistic life. Those images in *Black Book* were among the ones for which he became famous.
Geeker
Are they going to talk about how he was into eating shit?
BikeHulk
Do you have any citation that it’s a fact? Also, do you feel it’s an important aspect of his life for a movie?