Alex Cox's punk rock Romeo And Juliet is a pretty bleak affair - drugs, degradation and, eventually, squalid little death in the Chelsea Hotel. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb throw themselves gamely into a reckless, fatal attraction. Cox's point is that there's purity to his character's love that tran...
Alex Cox’s punk rock Romeo And Juliet is a pretty bleak affair – drugs, degradation and, eventually, squalid little death in the Chelsea Hotel.
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb throw themselves gamely into a reckless, fatal attraction. Cox’s point is that there’s purity to his character’s love that transcends the drug-riddled hell of punk.
Courtney Love cameos; the final scene – with the smack-crossed lovers riding to Heaven in a taxi – can understandably split an audiences.
EXTRAS: Next 60 minute doc, Cox commentary and interview, photo gallery, previously unseen Pistols footage.
4*
MICHAEL BONNER
Pic credit: The Kobal Collection