This jukebox musical is a love letter to Gen Z queerness and the Indigo Girls which skates a counterculture vibe with Baz Luhrmann like audacity. For me it completely worked with all its bombast and earnestness.
The film is visually striking and narratively loose. It's a love story between young men just starting their lives filled with the poetry of reflective (older) women but yet it feels honest and raw, and just the right amount of awkward. It definitely has an underground feeling to its filming that triggered a lot of nostalgia for queer films of a different era that were made on a shoestring and distributed through alternative channels. Also the music, much of it from earlier in the Indigo Girls' career, brought back memories.
There are fun cameos but at the heart is the chemistry between the leads Diaz and Cammish whose youthful enthusiasm for love and fear of the great life ahead is palpable. The supporting performance by Pyle is powerful. I feel she's a very underrated actress.
For me it brought be back to a time in my life when I didn't know where things were going or how I was going to get there. Glitter & Doom just feels like love.
Glitter & Doom
Starring: Alex Diaz, Alan Cammish, Ming-Na Wen, Missy Pyle, Tig Notaro, Lea Delaria, Peppermint, Kate Pierson, Amy Ray, Emily Saliers
Director: Tom Gustafson
Writer: Cory Krueckeberg
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