Tom Gustafson's queer pop-disco romance imagines a circus performer and a singer-songwriter falling in love in Mexico City.
It isn’t every day you encounter a pop-disco musical about a buoyant aspiring circus performer and a brooding aspiring rock singer with competing Mommy issues falling in love in Mexico City against the electricized rearrangements of the Indigo Girls. And that’s not exactly lamentable, because I wouldn’t categorize English-languagecinema … though I also couldn’t accuse it of being anything other than original either.
Doom is a damaged Brit with a criminal mom , a hardened guitar and a growling purr, but even his angry-boy shtick is too much for one rock club owner to take seriously. The two men take it slow, although it’s clear Glitter is more eager to get to know Doom than Doom is willing to open up to this effervescent new boy. However, a stream of secluded camping trips and remixed Indigo Girls songs they sing together about vulnerability quickly render them inseparable.
Ultimately, I never felt quite invested in whether Glitter and Doom would find happiness together — partly because their intrinsic character traits don’t do much to distinguish them from leads that have come before them in the history of filmic romances, and partly because Diaz and Cammish struggle to ignite onscreen. These two hours feel long because you never once doubt that things will coalesce in the end.
Diaz’s performance is laden with social-media-influencer artifice . Cammish brings more pathos, but swallows much of his own dialogue, and many of his lines were unintelligible to me due to this muddled mumbling. Pyle, as Doom’s down-and-out mom, surprises with a deep, melodious bark of a voice, which matches Cammish’s own talented howl.
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