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As a good friend of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, filmmaker Richard Lowenstein gets amazing, unprecedented access to home movies, personal recordings of Hutchence's thoughts when he was alive, and interviews with close friends and family of Hutchence.
The result is a wonderful and fitting tribute to a rock star whose music and charisma had a huge impact on his generation.
People such as lover Kylie Minogue and manager Martha Troup speak in depth about what Hutchence was really like, and what drove him.
The consensus is that he was an artist at heart - shy as a boy but a showman as an adult, who write his own lyrics and melodies and wanted to be famous, but who like so many before him, suffered the downsides of fame.
Hutchence loved his parents, but the documentary shows how they had deep flaws, for which he forgave them eventually.
The part I don't quite understand is about Hutchence's relationship with Paula Yates, and the circumstances that led to Hutchence's death in a Sydney hotel.
There were some very messy circumstances, and I'm not sure this doco provides many insights, aside from suggesting that Hutchence was down because he agonised over the prospect of breaking up Yates and Bob Geldof, and thereby hurting their three daughters, which may have reminded Hutchence of the pain of his own parents' split.
I don't know about that. But maybe we'll never know, because Yates and Hutchence are no longer with us.
Hutchence and Yates were, as someone points out, bad influences on one another.
It's so sad, in any case, that Hutchence had such a terrible fall from his golden early years.
score 8/10
bbewnylorac 25 November 2019
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