The female leads do a very fine job with a tough script. Capturing anyone's essence in a two hour movie about a single year is, to state the obvious, not simple. Andre 3000 described his depiction of Hendrix as a bit like the cartoon character "Snagglepuss". Unfortunately, that is pretty much spot on.
I spent the entire viewing asking myself, "what is the filmmaker saying"? Was Hendrix self- destructive, damaged, tragically self-absorbed, unfeeling, a genius ahead of his time, all of the above? A single year in a life, with some poetic license to boot, makes it difficult to discern much about the totality of anyone.
But, I enjoyed the movie as a snapshot of a period and an era.
I spent the entire viewing asking myself, "what is the filmmaker saying"? Was Hendrix self- destructive, damaged, tragically self-absorbed, unfeeling, a genius ahead of his time, all of the above? A single year in a life, with some poetic license to boot, makes it difficult to discern much about the totality of anyone.
But, I enjoyed the movie as a snapshot of a period and an era.