As Mary Harron's shrewd adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's infamous
American Psycho hits theaters, it's as good a time as any for a critical reevaluation of the '80s literary wunderkind, whose novels captured everything survivors now claim was wrong with
that glitzy decade: the passionless hedonism, the shallow glamour, the rampant consumerism, the selfishness, the drugs. In lieu of anything critical, this documentary puff piece from ITV's
South Bank Show — which never goes any deeper than its subject warrants — will have to do.
Director Gilbert Fox's profile covers everything you ever wanted to know about Ellis but, frankly, couldn't be both...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
80 mins