Lenny - Twilight Time [Blu-ray] [1974]

Description

Lenny (1974), director Bob Fosse's follow-up to his award-winning Cabaret (1972), zeroes in on the controversial real-life comedian, Lenny Bruce (compellingly incarnated by Dustin Hoffman), best remembered after his drug-induced death as a kind of free-speech martyr. Told in pseudo-documentary style highlighted by Bruce Surtees' gritty black-and-white cinematography, the film gives us a portrait of the artist as a tortured advocate of liberation, remembered by mother, wife, friends, and colleagues.