Review of Be Here to Love Me (2004) by Stephen R — 01 Feb 2016

Margaret Brown's distressing Townes Van Vandt bio-pic asks many more questions than it is able to answer. The inexplicable collision of mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction and profound creativity that was Townes' life is often too painful to watch; key pieces of the puzzle don't seem to fit.

All we may ever be able to do is retreat into the music, much like Townes himself did when he was "high, low and in between".