There's too much Kate Moss in the Kate Moss biopic

Moss & Freud, playing at the London Film Festival, features a commanding Derek Jacobi, but is too sentimental to its subject

Kate Moss movie Moss & Freud at the London Film Festival review: ★★★

It’s often a red flag when stars executive produce their own biopics. Elton John’s Rocketman was viewed as too sympathetic to its subject, and Kate Moss has certainly been too close to this saccharine but not meritless Kate Moss film premiering at the London Film Festival.

In one scene in Moss & Freud , painter Lucian Freud , the grandson of Sigmund, is seen breaking up his easels in frustration over his developing feelings for Moss, who has been sitting as his muse. It’s a tearaway few seconds that ultimately glamorises Freud’s fits of rage, and the sort of thing that should have been prop