A documentary feature about the troubled heart and soul of Michael Hutchence, lead singer and songwriter of INXS. "Mystify" featuring rare archive footage and intimate insights from friends, lovers, family, colleagues and Michael Hutchence himself, the film portrays his life from the beginning of his fractured family background to the peaks of rock stardom.
Sophisticated and gregarious, yet shy and insecure, Michael Hutchence was the perfect mix of contradictions. He came to epitomise the very definition of leather clad sexually magnetic rock front man, but underneath it all he was a poetic and gentle soul. While seducing the world's most desirable women, his childhood sweetheart remained a life-long confidante until the day he died. His famously uninhibited stage performances were only made possible when protecting himself from the audience in a myopic out-of-focus cocoon.
"Mystify" presents an intimate narrative portrait imbued with authenticity, warmth and humour as Michael's friends, lovers, band-members, family, collaborators - and Hutchence himself - guide viewers through a trajectory from unconventional fractured childhood to charismatic, turbulent and ultimately tragic public stardom… the quintessential Rock God.