basquiat

Director: julian schnabel

Actor: jeffrey wright,michael wincott,benicio del toro,claire forlani

Data Published: Fri Aug 09 1996

Genres: Biography,Drama

Key Words: andy warhol character,dreadlocks,african american,character name as title,artistic creation

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115632/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basquiat_(film)

Description: Basquiat is a movie starring Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, and Benicio Del Toro. The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.

Plot: The film is a lightly fictionalised account of Basquiat's life. Initially a struggling artist living in a cardboard box in Tompkins Square Park.,[4] he works his way up the rungs of the New York art world in the eighties, thanks in part to his association Andy Warhol (David Bowie), the art dealer Bruno Bischofberger (Dennis Hopper), poet and critic René Ricard (Michael Wincott), and fellow artist Albert Milo (Gary Oldman). Alongside the development of his artistic career, the film also follows Basquiat's tumultuous relationship with Gina (Claire Forlani), a fellow aspiring artist he meets whilst she is working as a waitress at a diner he frequents with his friend Benny (Benicio del Toro). Their romance is affected by Basquiat's affair with the so-called "Big Pink" (Courtney Love), a woman he picks up on the street,[5] and his habitual abuse of heroin. Eventually, Basquiat finds himself isolated by his fame, the death of Warhol and his drug use. The film ends with a title card informing the audience that Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.