On the occasion of the Fête de la Musique, we recommend the excellent feature film “The Dirt”, a biopic dedicated to the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Available on Netflix.
This Tuesday, June 21, is the traditional Music Festival. To celebrate this occasion where decibels are in the spotlight, we recommend The Dirt, an excellent biopic dedicated to the sulphurous heavy metal group Mötley Crüe, a major rock band of the 80s. A feature film available on Netflix, with the cast Iwan Rheon, the Ramsay Bolton of Game of Thrones.
The Dirt looks back on the rocky journey of heavy metal (or more accurately glam metal) band Mötley Crüe, from beginnings in tiny Los Angeles bars to international fame. This feature film based on The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, the autobiography of the group, gives a perfect account of what was the American formation, renowned for its way of life, to say the least extreme.
Successes, failures, crises… The Dirt ticks all the boxes of Mötley Crüe’s career. Fascinating dive into the daily life of a lifestyle training, more than ever, sex, drugs & rock’n’rollthis successful biopic, which benefits from a very good interpretation and a hectic pace, could only have been produced by a master of screen excess: Jeff Tremaine, the man behind all the films in the saga. Jackass.
Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars, singer, bassist and guitarist of Mötley Crüe respectively, are played on screen by Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth and Iwan Rheon. As for the crazy drummer Tommy Lee, played by Sebastian Stan in the Disney+ series Pam & Tommy, he is interpreted here by the American rapper Machine Gun Kelly.
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