Avati's less famous biopic "Bix" is very far from hagiography;in fact,it ingenuously ignores the pious legends and incensing that usually pollute the musicians' memories.Like Christmas Present (and unlike Graduation Party), Bix (1991) is a work of impassible,dispassionate analysis and lancing.The sadness that impends over the banality and ugliness of Bix' life is sensible through a narrative technique that goes farther and farther back into Bix' simple, ignoble and imbalanced life.
Bix is exposed being prodigal,uninviting and profligate,unbalanced,self-destructive,dingy,hurtful,a drunkardAvati accumulates the disgusting features of Bix' lifeBix is shown drunk,viscous,a wreck, no redeeming qualitiesyes,Avati accumulates Bix' mistakes without redundancy or reduplication:on the contrary,he has for his rather long movie enough misdeeds of Bix'not a very flattering portrait! This biopic is the work of an objective moralist,interested mainly in deepening the sad and sordid aspects of a banal lad's life.
Bix, waddling, viscid,hidden,mostly silent,a wavererhis whole youth wasted with lickera weak-minded stained by his vomit and urine .Avati's narrative is made of accurate notations,with strong and exact touches,and,what can I say,with a clinical sense of the wasteBix' decline is not in any way spectacular .
Bixuntidy,unbalanced,seedy and filthy,bewildered,clumsy,uncouth and miserablea wretch,his lack of poise .The impartial Avati exposes Bix' dim,troubled,loser vitality.Avati does this without obligingness,and without indulging in the things exposed.He shows Bix churlish,unruly and puzzled,he depicts him as an crotchety,erratic,twisted human;there is debasement to one's heart's content.
Bix is exposed being prodigal,uninviting and profligate,unbalanced,self-destructive,dingy,hurtful,a drunkardAvati accumulates the disgusting features of Bix' lifeBix is shown drunk,viscous,a wreck, no redeeming qualitiesyes,Avati accumulates Bix' mistakes without redundancy or reduplication:on the contrary,he has for his rather long movie enough misdeeds of Bix'not a very flattering portrait! This biopic is the work of an objective moralist,interested mainly in deepening the sad and sordid aspects of a banal lad's life.
Bix, waddling, viscid,hidden,mostly silent,a wavererhis whole youth wasted with lickera weak-minded stained by his vomit and urine .Avati's narrative is made of accurate notations,with strong and exact touches,and,what can I say,with a clinical sense of the wasteBix' decline is not in any way spectacular .
Bixuntidy,unbalanced,seedy and filthy,bewildered,clumsy,uncouth and miserablea wretch,his lack of poise .The impartial Avati exposes Bix' dim,troubled,loser vitality.Avati does this without obligingness,and without indulging in the things exposed.He shows Bix churlish,unruly and puzzled,he depicts him as an crotchety,erratic,twisted human;there is debasement to one's heart's content.