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There's not much to say about me, Andy Warhol explains, tapping his chin with his finger, as deliberately as it is meaningful. The Netflix series Andy Warhol's Diary disagrees, it has six episodes and was produced by Ryan Murphy, written and directed by Andrew Rossi. Warhol's entire life is depicted here as the majority, from 1928 to 1987.
A boy born and raised in an immigrant family in the dirty steel town of Pittsburgh, ridiculed by his classmates as Andy Rednose Warhola, a young man depressed because he cannot express his homosexuality in the restrictive society – his great desire is to be an American will. A very normal american boy. So he heads to the big city of New York to reinvent himself. An outsider who profoundly shaped his time and his society, the world of art and New York pop from the sixties. A world where self-expression was natural.
The stories about the men he was chasing are incredibly moving
la Andy Warhol's Diary are not diaries in the traditional sense, they lack the aura of intimacy and secrecy. They appeared in book form in 1989, two years after Warhol's death, edited by Pat Hackett. Warhol had told her on the phone at nine o'clock every morning since 1976 what he had done the night before. Warhol speaks the diary passages from the Netflix series, not the real one, but an AI program that simulates his voice – courtesy of the Warhol Foundation, of course.
The episodes are characterized by a great dialectic of melancholy and euphoria, drunkenness and loneliness, through New York gay bars, the mythical Studio 54, the Factory, a “family of misfits” where Warhol made his films and his stuff with friends, colleagues, accomplices. We are witnessing the shot that feminist author Valérie Solanas fired at Warhol in 1968 and which he almost did not survive, the magazine maintenance, Warhol TV and the famous clips from the 15 Minutes series. Incredibly moving – because excruciating for Andy – are the three stories about the men he was looking for, Jed Johnson, the interior designer, and Jon Gould, the film producer at Paramount, both masculine and confident, and the colorful graffiti artist Jean-Michael Basquiat. . Next to them, Warhol looks like a poor boy with a sad smile.
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The series illustrates Warhol's life, work and loneliness in a very emotional way. Interviews with friends, colleagues or critics, news and home movies, works and exhibitions, but also atmospheric stagings, a dark living room, a man at the window. When Andy talks about going to the movies, the show has the movie clip ready, James Dean in “Rebel without a Cause,” next to him Sal Mineo, the pathetic underdog. Once there's a story about a New Year's Eve kiss while on vacation with Jon Gould in the ski paradise of Aspen — all straight American boys. With this kiss, Andy is very close to happiness, so he also illustrated himself with a blissful kiss, that of Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in the ultimate melodrama, Heaven Allows.
Andy is like all great actors, his friend Debbie Harry says at first, they don't cry or show any vulnerability. But you can feel it, look at them.
Andy Warhol's Diary, on Netflix.
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