Rapper Machine Gun Kelly plays a self-destructive musician in Tim Sutton’s Taurus, premiering in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. Going by his real name, Colson Baker, he puts in a…
, he puts in an authentic turn as his character Cole flits between the studio, his expensive apartment and an array of seedy bars and strip clubs. Adding to a sense of impending doom is a disturbing opening scene involving a child with a loaded gun. The significance of this is later revealed, but it could also be considered a symbol of Cole himself: an immature person who has great power, and an attraction to danger.
There’s a guest singer on his track who does a beautiful job — but whom he doesn’t even remember an hour later. Most significantly, there’s his assistant Ilana , a long-suffering young woman whose duties range from driving him around to cleaning up his vomit. “I’m not his mother,” she protests at one point, when held accountable for another of his absences, but her job isn’t far off.
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