Synopsis: An adolescent boy starts writing about rock-and-roll for magazines and gets an assignment to do a story on a not-so-famous band while going on tour with it. He falls in love with a groupie who is in love with the lead guitarist. The boy's mother is full of strict rules and calls him on the phone all the time while he is away.
Appraisal: At last, a filmmaker that creates an interesting story out of the lives of rock-and-roll musicians and those that gravitate around them... not! Arguably a lesson in mise-en-scene (and editing and camerawork) precision but alas, those qualities alone do not save the film, which has a rather poor and conventional screenplay and adopts a moralizing, or romanticizing, tone every so often. It would probably get a higher grade if watched with the sound turned off.
Rating: 45
Note: I saw the longer version.
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