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Purple Rain
April 29, 2016, 9:00 PM
Celebrate the sound and vision of Prince’s inevitable triumph over the 1980s, a purple spectacle gritty and electric that is at once a perfect encapsulation of the late singer in the minds of his fans and merely one of his insatiable mood swings. The film, a soap opera of the Minneapolis Sound – a mix of funk, synth, and rock pioneered by The Artist in the late ’70s- covers racial duality, machismo, and corny bio-fluff in a glittering sweat, and fixes you with an Erotic City treatise from across the floor while you dance to the soundtrack that will forever overshadow it. Prince’s quasi-biographical figure ‘The Kid’ feuds with rival band Morris Day and The Time, toys with beauty and how-long-will-she-put-up-with-this protégé Apollonia, and transforms into a doe-eyed, magnetically possessed legend. Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Digital DCP! (R, 111 mins.)
“He came to play his music loud, scream his lyrics and seduce with impunity. He dared to wear ruffles, eye liner and a hairstyle homage to Hendrix. Women screamed. Men were confused. A star was born…..Purple Rain is not a living room kind of movie. It demands to be experienced in all its awesomely ridiculous glory on the biggest screen, with the biggest speakers and the biggest crowd.” –Odie Henderson, rogerebert.com.