Dylan lived a life of booze, sex and ill health. He died young and in that time wrote great poetry and did a lot of readings which Thomas is also known for.
This film concentrates on his American tours in the last part of his life. New York seduces him with fame and booze but the stories I heard about his time in New York, some by people still alive who knew him in that period are more interesting than this biopic.
There was some good use of period footage used in this film and Tom Hollander channelled the essence of Dylan Thomas but it was also a by the numbers biopic with love, drink, lust, betrayal and poetry.
The film would have been better with some actual American actors playing Americans although Ewen Bremner was good the accent seemed to wobble here and there.
The poetry recitals were good and the flashbacks to his earlier in Wales were intriguing but this was a wasted opportunity.
