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‘Solo’ Review: Sophie Dupuis Delivers a Beautiful Character Study That’s Anything but a Drag
In Sophie Dupuis' "Solo," Théodore Pellerin mesmerizes as a young drag performer navigating romance just as his estranged mother returns to his life.
Affectionately chronicling the drag world, as well as what happens to its inhabitants when the make-up comes off, the writer-director delivers a visually arresting and emotionally involving story that mercifully pivots more on broader familial and romantic conflicts than the ultraspecific cultural ones of its setting. Nevertheless fully rendering its protagonist’s personal and artistic crises, “Solo” both honors and transcends its subject matter in its widely evocative, deeply affecting character study — while also happening to have an absolutely banging soundtrack. Ultimately, it’s precisely that multi-tiered combination that makes “Solo” one of the year’s best films, and the thing that will leave audiences feeling like Simon at the beginning of his relationship with Olivier: intoxicated with the prospect of falling in love with a great young director and ravenously eager to see from her what comes next.
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