Jagger starts the film telling us how he despises the exact rock mythology this cliche-ridden show indulges in. Worse still, it fails to ask difficult questions about his band’s problematic past
ery few men can work a front-lacing skin-tight jumpsuit. Certainly not without getting their nipples caught or their beer gut stretching the satinet unbecomingly. Or, indeed, without the ensemble suggesting an accident in a sausage factory.before a 1970s gig, tightening the laces on his jumpsuit across his chest – snake hipped, underwear invisible, genitals only tantalisingly visible.
“What most documentaries do,” says Sir Mick at the outset, “is repeat the same mythology over and over.” He hopes this one is going to do otherwise. It doesn’t. Right after Jagger indicts what documentaries do, this documentary does it once more with such a cataclysm of cliches that for a moment I hope the writer is having us on.
But the problem with My Life As a Rolling Stone is that having made such assertions, instead of backing them up, it falls back into the tropes Sir Mick disdains.
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