Film: A true story full of wild fantasy
An ebullient account of Elton John’s rise to fame in the 1970s combines the required biographical realism with exquisite flights of fantasy to deliver a stunning three-dimensional portrait
Cinema
Rocketman: Directed by Dexter Fletcher; Nationwide, 15A;Rating:****
XY Chelsea: Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins; Selected, no cert;Rating:**
Biopics are tricky. The perceived need to offer cinema audiences a comprehensive run-through of the subject’s Wikipedia entry tends to crowd out the actual drama that makes someone’s life worth making a film about in the first place. That goes double for the rock ’n’ roll biopic, which must straddle the line between the debauched ...
