Fascinating riveting picture of a person and time that still resonates. M was remarkably talented, remarkably ambitious and remarkably manipulative and selfish...rather like Warhol ( who disliked him until characteristically, he was rich and famous and so worth knowing). Much of the film is narrated by M himself from tapes of interviews etc ( although the sources were not really made clear)
Some of his earliest work was fascinating in its foreshadowing of later ideas and images ( even his most extreme sexual images) and it was fascinating seeing his surviving family talking...particularly his younger brother who clearly had, and still has, a very complicated and enigmatic relationship...although any relationship with. M was, almost by definition, going to be very fraught and taxing.
It was fascinating to see how many prop,e there were though who survived those times and they gave a vivid and grim picture of life in NYC and the onset of the AIDS pandemic. As one of the film makers said, in the Q and A at the end, there is a degree of romanticisation of that time and place...in fact life there was often ' nasty, brutish and ( for a large number) short'.
As another aside he mentioned Madonna who had a similar trajectory and approach to M ( and who was of course, a part of that scene).
Superb film and I hoe it gets the exposure it deserves.