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It’s hard to remember a time when the Rolling Stones weren’t four fossils in leather pants with titles in the peerage and three-digit ticket prices. In “Stoned,” Stephen Wooley’s directorial debut, he recounts the...
Instead, the film’s minimal plot centers on the alternately tense and tender relationship between Jones and Thorogood. Thorogood is the central figure of the last phase of Jones’ life: his constant companion, a witness to the unraveling that led to his split with the band...
This relationship unfolds against the carefully constructed backdrop of the 1960s. Wooley seems as interested in evocations of the era as he is in story telling. The film is just about as sex-obsessed and drug-crazed as Jones was—most of the characters are on their way...
Jones himself fits into the nostalgic that characterizes the entire film. He is an embodiment of lost innocence, a figure whom Wooley depicts as boyish even as his skin grows leathery and the wrinkles on his face deepen. Jones’ home is the former residence of A.A. Milne, and...
The camera focuses so tightly on Jones and Thorogood that the female actresses fade into the background. Monet Mazur (“Monster-in-Law”) as Anita Pallenberg, mistress of many band members, and Novotny both take decent turns, but neither endows her leggy blonde character with much...