I had to stop watching the trailer after 30 seconds. It looked like an utterly precious, navel-gazing-heavy exercise in "indie" filmmaking designed for hipster-ish white twentysomethings. Yeah, for everyone indeed.
shareHah.
Ex Belle and Sebastian
Producers of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums
Pop
.....For EVERYONE.
Gotta be some sort of hipster in joke.
I like Belle & Sebastian in small doses, but I've actually seen this, and yes, it is exactly what you fear: A bunch of twenty-somethings behaving like precocious children who might have a tantrum if someone doesn't tell them how adorable they are every five seconds.
shareThat's exactly what it looks like. I can't imagine what the actual plot is, but I bet it's not far from what you say.
shareThanks for the heads up, ofumalow. There was a nagging voice in the back of my mind trying to convince me to see the movie because I've enjoyed the main three actors in other roles they've done, but I was also pretty confident that this wouldn't be the type of movie that I'd really be able to appreciate. Much to my chagrin the little voice in the back of my head persisted non the less.
Luckily I read your post and your words confirmed my suspicions that God Help the Girl wouldn't be my style, so thank you.
Cheers
Actually I really don't mean to discourage anyone from seeing the film. I had such an extreme allergic reaction, I'd be curious to hear what other people think. You said you've enjoyed the primary three actors elsewhere--I'd be curious what you'd think of Emily Browning here, since I found her so horribly posey it was like watching someone preen in a mirror.
shareI haven’t been able to see this film, but based on the trailer it doesn’t seem to be the kind of film that I would appreciate. It appears to justify my fear that the film is about a group of narcissistic individuals in their twenties still acting more like pubescent teens. I like Emily Browning, but in every shot of hers in the trailer she seems to be saying "you know how adorable I am, right?"
I know Emily is only 25, but in my opinion she is already a little too old to play the type of character that the trailer seems to suggest.
It's a terribly pretentious trailer.
shareI can deny this statement:
" bunch of twenty-somethings behaving like precocious children who might have a tantrum if someone doesn't tell them how adorable they are every five seconds. "
I am a 45 year old white male who can be an impossibly pompous film snob who alway s hated fashion/music hipsters
BUT
I had a lot of fun with this unpretentious cutely lightweight musical, full of adorable girls singing me sugarey pop songs
I wudnt mind if there wuz nekkid boobies but there were none
Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka
That's cute. I bet you judge books by the covers too.
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