Revisiting 'Rocketman'
Falling in love with 'Rocketman" all over again.

At La Fontana, an asylum-seekers center in León (Spain), people from many backgrounds and languages decide to make a film together. The question isn’t what story to tell, but how to tell it among so many voices. A collective visual essay of small experiments, where memories, sounds of a present past and a future ahead. Meanwhile, the film is already happening.
Falling in love with 'Rocketman" all over again.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Many have interpreted Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon as a dream sequence, but what if the repetitive scenes we are given are not dreams but, a time loop.
These openly gay Hollywood figures risked so much by being honest about their sexuality: judgment, loss of employment, hate – even violence and death.
Word of mouth has been incredible, but the film's faults cannot be ignored.
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.