Angelina Jolie is a natural fit to play Gia Carangi.
Both were rebellious growing up. Gia was a punk teenager in Philadelphia who headed off to New York in the late 1970s and soon became a top fashion model under agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway.)
Success was swift and in the heady days of the early 1980s. She became a supermodel, was openly lesbian/bisexual, did lots of drugs. Unfortunately she was one of the first famous women to die of Aids in 1986.
Co-writer and director Michael Cristofer gives this movie a docudrama approach. It has talking heads discussing aspects of Gia's life.
Gia was undoubtedly a brash woman, she had relationship issues with a girlfriend and a complex relationship with her mother.
Despite being artily shot, some nudity from Ms Jolie. It comes across as another rise and fall true life movie.
At times it just felt skin deep and a bit camp. Nothing about the pressures of the fashion industry where drug use is regarded as common.
The taboo aspects of Aids in the 1980s is dealt with. It should had been a movie that amounted to something more. Jolie certainly showed why she was regarded as a rising star.
Both were rebellious growing up. Gia was a punk teenager in Philadelphia who headed off to New York in the late 1970s and soon became a top fashion model under agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway.)
Success was swift and in the heady days of the early 1980s. She became a supermodel, was openly lesbian/bisexual, did lots of drugs. Unfortunately she was one of the first famous women to die of Aids in 1986.
Co-writer and director Michael Cristofer gives this movie a docudrama approach. It has talking heads discussing aspects of Gia's life.
Gia was undoubtedly a brash woman, she had relationship issues with a girlfriend and a complex relationship with her mother.
Despite being artily shot, some nudity from Ms Jolie. It comes across as another rise and fall true life movie.
At times it just felt skin deep and a bit camp. Nothing about the pressures of the fashion industry where drug use is regarded as common.
The taboo aspects of Aids in the 1980s is dealt with. It should had been a movie that amounted to something more. Jolie certainly showed why she was regarded as a rising star.