Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Basquiat becomes a star and a part of Andy Warhol's art world circle. But success has a price, and Basquiat pays with friendships, love, and eventually, his life.... (Full plot summary below)
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Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Basquiat becomes a star and a part of Andy Warhol's art world circle. But success has a price, and Basquiat pays with friendships, love, and eventually, his life.
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| Rolling StonePeter TraversMost movies stress the agony of art (think of Kirk Douglas' Van Gogh in "Lust for Life"). Schnabel's exceptional film honors his friend by showing the act of creation as a natural high. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe New York art world quickly makes Basquiat a star. His work is good (when you see it in the movie, you can feel why people liked it so much), but his story is better: from a cardboard box to a gallery opening! |
| KFOR Channel 4 NewsBlake DavisA stylish and interesting look at a moment in New York City's art world where everyone stopped to look at one person, who never seemd to quite fit. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenWell, the movie suffers slightly from that tendency -- the portrait shows definite signs of airbrushing. But it's rendered with enough intelligence, and performed with sufficient grace, to offer us an occasionally compelling, curiously upbeat look behind the lacquered image and into the complicated self. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittWritten and directed by Julian Schnabel, himself a gifted painter, this is one of the rare art-world movies that succeeds as both human drama and visual artistry. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannIt's smart and good-hearted and boasts an amazingly good score, but the film is limited by the very private nature of the man it portrays. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIt's also quite energetic -- there isn't a boring shot anywhere, and writer-director Schnabel is clearly enjoying himself as he plays with expressionist sound, neo-Eisensteinian edits, and all sorts of other filmic ideas. |
| Salon.comGlen HelfandFor a first feature, this surprisingly likeable film might just revitalize Schnabel's persona in art circles, as well as make a splash with hip young filmgoers. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBasquiat is an engrossing spectacle, but by the end, as a zoned-out Basquiat stands regally in a cruising Jeep, we realize that Schnabel has reconfigured his story as a kind of ghostly myth, and that we've never completely seen the man behind it. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe character on the screen (played by Jeffrey Wright)... is nothing more than a surface. |
