Behind the Candelabra (2013)

	Also Known As: Ma vie avec Liberace (F), Liberace (US)
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Steven Soderbergh
	Actors: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 16.09.2013, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: Scott Thorson is introduced to flamboyant entertainment star Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the Las Vegas pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess, Scott and Liberace have a long affair. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate Liberace, and submitting to extreme makeovers and even plastic surgery at the behest of his lover, Scott eventually rebels.
Review: This was another movie on the rock'n'roll life of a local star (The look of love). Well a least one star that I never heard about. This time more parties, sex and drugs. The movie was entertaining, but I do not see anything remarkable or original or interesting in it. The story was classical and fully foreseeable. The acting was good for Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, but the directing had nothing special. Well, this was a good experience of the difference between entertainment and art. I am looking forward in the hope of finding something more original/personal, more ideas, more sensibility.
Rating: 3 /10