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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a new film from acclaimed director Sara Driver, opened May 11, 2018.
From the Glenn Kenny’s review in the New York Times:
Ms. Driver… withholds one thing: You never hear his voice. Basquiat’s presence in the film is more spectral as a result. This is Ms. Driver’s way of acknowledging loss. Basquiat’s art — raw, inventive, socially engaged — continues to speak to us even as the artist himself cannot.
Near the end of the movie, one of Basquiat’s friends refers to him as “a true investigator.” In Ms. Driver, the artist finds a kindred spirit, a fellow investigator who pays him proper and enthralling tribute.
