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‘Finding You’ Review: A Fiddler Falls in Love

In this dull young adult romance, a violinist spends a semester abroad in Ireland and meets a famous dreamboat.

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By Beatrice Loayza

The cinematic teen girls in everything from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” to “The Fault in Our Stars” go abroad to find themselves, but usually run into boy problems instead. “Finding You,” another phony girlish fantasy adapted from a popular young adult novel (“There You’ll Find Me” by Jenny B. Jones), is no different. But unlike the aforementioned titles, it lacks the personality and dramatic stakes to interest adult viewers.

Directed by Brian Baugh, the film follows Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid), a violinist who heads to a small town off the coast of Ireland after a botched music conservatory audition.

On the flight over she’s serendipitously seated next to the curly-haired dreamboat Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), a fantasy franchise actor who the grounded Finley immediately brushes off. Turns out he’s staying at her host family’s bed-and-breakfast for the next several months.

Vaguely inspired by “Pride and Prejudice,” a book that Finley reads to a grumpy retiree (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she’s assigned to visit regularly, the film spends a good chunk of its time humanizing Beckett (whose dad pressures him to act) to upend Finley’s first impressions.

With Beckett as her tour guide, our heroine goes sightseeing, takes in the Cliffs of Moher and encounters a spatter of eccentric locals — like a genial barfly who teaches her the ways of the Irish fiddle. Otherwise, the film might as well take place in any other cute European town featured on a study abroad brochure.

Exploring a new country as a young woman should be more interesting than as a backdrop for improbable romance. But even as an amorous daydream, “Finding You” is dated and generic, Disney Channel-movie-esque, but without the charismatic teen stars.

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Parents need to know that Finding You is a wholesome, Ireland-set romance based on Jenny B. Jones' YA novel There You'll Find Me that's really about finding yourself. While it's unquestionably about a young couple finding love, the elements are soft enough that it feels more like a family film with a…

Positive Messages

Title implies finding love, but movie is more about finding yourself in unexpected places with unexpected people. Dig deeper rather than make snap judgments about people's outward behavior. Gently delivered faith-based message that you're not alone; God is watching over you. Themes include integrity. Explores some of the unpleasant reality behind management of child actors and their lack of agency over their own lives.

Positive Role Models

Finley is a positive female role model. She's confident in her talent, and when she doesn't achieve a goal, she takes action to set herself up for success and try again. She's considerate, and her priorities are in the right place. She's not impressed by celebrity and money, keeps her focus on what truly matters. But she has a relationship with a young man who demonstrates narcisstic behavior until after they're involved. And some female characters are portrayed somewhat stereotypically: obsessed and gossipy, conniving and mean, jealous and possessive. No notable diversity in core cast.

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Some pretend blood in a clearly fake movie-making environment.

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Primary story and subplot are about romance. A couple of kisses. Photo of shirtless man.

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Language includes "helluva," as well as U.K. slang such as "shite" and "wanker."

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Mixed messages about drinking: photos of a main character drinking and partying that lend to an image of desirability. An elderly musician is frequently drunk but is highly respected in the community. Several scenes take place in a pub. A man is said to have drunk himself to death.

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Parents need to know that Finding You is a wholesome, Ireland-set romance based on Jenny B. Jones' YA novel There You'll Find Me that's really about finding yourself. While it's unquestionably about a young couple finding love, the elements are soft enough that it feels more like a family film with a touch of romance (there are two kisses and some hand-holding). Lead character Finley ( Rose Reid ) is role model material: She's caring, thoughtful, and self-confident. But female characters are also portrayed somewhat stereotypically: obsessed and gossipy, conniving and mean, and jealous and possessive. Finley's love interest is a celebrity, and the story explores some of the unpleasant reality behind the management of child actors and their lack of agency over their own lives. Scenes take place inside a pub, a young character appears to be drinking in photos, and a well-respected musician is often shown drunk. Expect to hear some U.K.-specific profanity ("shite," "wanker"). The movie includes a faith-based element that feels authentic to the story, and characters demonstrate integrity. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the story.

Adapted from Jenny B. Jones' YA novel There You'll Find Me, FINDING YOU introduces viewers to violinist Finley ( Rose Reid ) after a failed audition for a music conservatory. In a quick pivot, she opts for a semester abroad in Ireland to clear her head and improve her musical skills. When movie star Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), who's shooting a film nearby, becomes taken with her, Finely has to examine her priorities and decide what she'll risk for love.

Is It Any Good?

Call this a "starter romance": a sweet story that's low on lovey-dovey stuff and more about growing up. It's actually less romantic than many Disney animated princess movies, although Finley (Reid) is just a few degrees away from Belle in Beauty and the Beast : She's grounded and not interested in distractions from her scholarly pursuits. And the movie's "prince," Beckett, starts out much like Gaston: He's an arrogant man about town who's used to having admirers fall over him. But the more Finley allows Beckett into her life, like The Beast, the more we see him for who he is. That might make for an enchanting animated fable, but in a modern-day live-action film, it's a little troubling. Yes, digging deeper to look past people's facades is a great message. But these days, most parents usually hope that their kids will realize that if a potential love interest looks and acts like a narcissist, it's in their best interest to not get involved.

Finding You is full of discoveries, like a smartly assembled cast and the beauty of Ireland. It offers an escape for families longing to visit ancient lands with captivating castles and grass that's blindingly green. The subplot about a medieval, dragon-slaying fantasy film being shot in the castles near Carlingford is a clever use of the space. While not all of it makes sense, Beckett's dad/manager has tight control over the life of his son, which introduces elements of critical thinking for kids who might realize that fame and fortune have a price. Finding You works both for families seeking out faith-based films and for those who aren't interested. One of the movie's faith-based elements has a mic-drop moment, but it happens without a single line of dialogue and isn't jarring or forced. Bottom line? As a piece of entertainment, you're likely to find that you get more out of this film than you might have expected.

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Families can talk about the messages that Finding You sends about drinking . Are there consequences for drinking? Why does that matter?

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Many films about self-discovery involve going on a physical journey. Why do you think this is? How does this film demonstrate that sometimes we know who we are, and it's more about finding the courage to be yourself?

What comment is the movie making on celebrity and celebrity-obsessed culture? Do you think Beckett's situation is similar to that of other celebrities whose careers began when they were kids?

How does Finley demonstrate integrity ? Is she a role model ? Why, or why not? Did you notice any stereotypes in the way characters were depicted?

Movie Details

  • In theaters : May 14, 2021
  • On DVD or streaming : August 10, 2021
  • Cast : Rose Reid , Jedidiah Goodacre , Tom Everett Scott
  • Director : Brian Baugh
  • Inclusion Information : Female actors
  • Studio : Roadside Attractions
  • Genre : Romance
  • Topics : Book Characters , Brothers and Sisters , Great Girl Role Models
  • Character Strengths : Integrity
  • Run time : 115 minutes
  • MPAA rating : PG
  • MPAA explanation : language and thematic elements
  • Last updated : March 31, 2022

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Girl meets movie star in ‘Finding You,’ a surprisingly unaffected Y.A. love story

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Based on “ There You’ll Find Me ,” a Christian Y.A. novel about a college girl healing from emotional wounds (while also falling in love), the film “Finding You” would seem, by virtue of the title change alone, to have shifted its thematic focus slightly. The original wording suggests a journey of self-discovery; the latter, a more straightforward voyage of romance on the metaphorical Love Boat.

And that is borne out in this tale of fluttering young feelings, whose theme of faith is — to the extent that it’s there at all — little more than a bay leaf flavoring the stew, but removed before serving: You can just taste it, but it’s not really there.

Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) is an 18-year-old American college student and aspiring violinist who, after getting rejected from an audition for a prestigious music academy, turns to a semester abroad in Ireland, where she hopes to perfect her fiddling skills while staying with relatives in the small town where her deceased brother once studied. Upon arrival, Finley discovers a sketchbook that bro left behind, with a drawing of a grave marker: a broken Celtic cross, next to her scribbled name. What does it mean, and where is this cross? If the carving bears a message for her, such statuary exists in every cemetery in Ireland. The question hangs over the plot like a cloud.

It’s not the only one.

On the flight over, Finley happens to sit next to Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), a hunky if slightly arrogant movie star making yet another one of his popular but pulpy fantasy flicks in the very town where Finley is staying — while coincidentally renting a room in her relatives’ bed-and-breakfast. Be still, Finley’s heart! “It would never work,” she thinks, bringing herself back down to earth.

Or would it?

Finley takes on the role of Beckett’s informal assistant, helping him to run lines and find his character, and improving his acting skills in the process by giving him reason to actually believe the mushy talk his character spouts to his co-star, Taylor Risdale (Katherine McNamara), an airhead actress with whom he has a shallow, on-again-off-again romance in the real world as well. Meanwhile Finley strikes up a friendship with an elderly nursing-home resident (Vanessa Redgrave) who’s estranged from her sister (Helen Roche).

Will Finley help the aged siblings reconcile before it’s too late? Will she ever find that cross and whatever message it holds? Will she be touched with the gift of true musicianship — courtesy of a homeless, drunk string virtuoso (Patrick Bergin)? And, most importantly, will she ultimately find true love with Beckett, even as she teaches him to follow his own bliss (meaning: pursue better scripts and finally dump Taylor once and for all)?

Uhhh . . . has it really been that long since you’ve been to the movies?

There are no real surprises here, except maybe one. It would never work, Finley warns us, and it seems she might as well be talking about this cornball movie. But thanks to something ineffable — Redgrave, leprechauns, moondust, or maybe just understated performances from two appealing protagonists — “Finding You” kinda, sorta does.

PG.  At area theaters. Contains some strong language and mature thematic elements. 115 minutes.

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Genre: Romance, Drama

Director: Brian Baugh

Cast: Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, Tom Everett Scott, Vanessa Redgrave, Katherine McNamara

MPAA-Rating: PG

Release Date: May 14th, 2021

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The new teen romance Finding You has a quiet and gentle spirit that’s hard to turn away from. Set in Ireland, the drama focuses on a violin player who takes a semester abroad in hopes of changing her life. Written and directed by Brian Baugh, the plot covers familiar territory but has a charm all on its own.

The drama follows Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid), a young musician who just faltered at an audition. Taylor wants to attend a prestigious school but can’t seem to get out of her own way. She realizes she needs a change and decides to spend a semester abroad. She moves in with the same loveable but big-hearted family her brother lived with when he did the same thing.

On her plane ride across the ocean, Finley sits next to a charming but self-indulgent actor named Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre). As fate would have it, Beckett will be staying at the same place Taylor’s slated to stay at.

Of course, these two main characters dislike each other early on. Fortunately, the familiar concept works because the leads are committed to the concept and their antipathy towards each other never feels forced. They don’t actively hate each other. They just don’t like each other. While Reid plays the straight-laced character well, it’s the charming Goodacre whose charisma springs the plot alive.

Goodacre’s character Beckett is dealing with his own failings. The star of a series of films where he battles dragons, Beckett longs for a more typical existence. His father Montgomery (Montgomery Rush) manages him like a product, pushing for the press to portray him as a bad boy to boost his career. Despite spending much of his time in the countryside, Beckett appears in the press as a playboy in an on-again off-again relationship with his co-star Taylor (Katherine McNamara).

Much of the drama follows the two main characters but the story also offers a few great lessons about following your own dreams, seeing people for who they truly are (and not simply as a superficial level) and even forgiveness. In a small role here, Vanessa Redgrave co-stars as a grouchy woman who reportedly stole her sister’s fiance years earlier.

Like in Notting Hill  or the more recent My Week with Marilyn , this film touches on celebrities and how they are often defined by the press. By focusing on young people and specifically a burgeoning actor whose own father admits “His love life is his career,” Finding You offers some insights into young Hollywood and how stars are sometimes trapped by their fame.

Finding You has some weaker elements including a subplot about a cemetery stone that doesn’t work as well as it could. However, the film has charm to spare and the cast — especially Goodacre, who reminded me of a young Heath Ledger — seem to embrace the story’s warm-hearted personality. There are some familiar beats here but the romantic drama finds a way to succeed despite its flaws.

From Goodacre’s performance to its important life lessons to the beautiful Irish scenery, Finding You finds a way to stand out and will likely charm viewers who are willing to give it a chance.

Review by: John Hanlon

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As charming as it is long, Finding You , the new movie from cinematographer-turned director Brian Baugh is packed with plenty of good intentions and awkward cliches. And that’s part of the problem.

Adapted from the Jenny B. Jones' 2011 YA novel titled, There You’ll Find Me , Baugh ’s film is about Finley Sinclair (YA film ingenue Rose Reid ), a young music student struggling to find her passion for playing the violin with hopes of getting into a prestigious New York music school.

She finds it in Ireland during a semester abroad program. Complications arise though, when she also finds a love interest in the form of Beckett Rush ( Jedediah Goodacre , TV’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ), a popular young movie star trying to cope with his own set of struggles.

The two meet on the airplane on their way to Ireland and wouldn’t you know it, they happen to be staying in the same hotel! They don’t quite hit it off right away with Finley playing hard to get and Beckett pouring on his boyish charm. But as the story plays out, the couple form a relationship, fall in love, fall out of love, address some problems, and fall back in love. End of story.

To be honest, it is more complicated than that. Way more complicated. Too complicated, in fact, as numerous subplots, diversions, distractions, and too many unnecessarily busy personal relationship problems muddy what should have been a quaint little love story set in the gorgeously photographed Irish countryside.

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Finley also meets Seamus (veteran character actor Patrick Bergen ), the town drunk who, when not playing music in the pubs, is sleeping on the local park benches, yet turns out to be the most genuine inhabitant of the entire quirky little Irish burgh. And guess what instrument he plays? You guessed it, the violin (although he calls it a fiddle). I’ll leave it to you to guess where this relationship goes.

Other side plots, one involving Beckett’s controlling father ( Tom Everett Scott ) who drums up controversy on the “socials” to keep his son’s career relevant, and another concerning some drawings left behind by Finley’s late brother, do little more than pad the runtime.

Sure, Finding You is loaded with plenty of charm from the likable cast, beautiful cinematography, and features an infectious spirit that very nearly saves the entire thing. But Baugh ’s adaptation tries to cover too much ground and is never quite clever enough to elevate the proceedings above its made-for-TV sentiments. With a tighter script and at least one of the subplots trimmed, this romantic drama about finding the courage to be true to oneself could have hit many more high notes. As it is though, Finding You never quite finds its groove.

2/5 stars

Finding You

MPAA Rating: PG for language and thematic elements. Runtime: 115 mins Director : Brian Baugh Writer: Brian Baugh Cast: Katherine McNamara, Jedidiah Goodacre, Vanessa Redgrave Genre : Romance | Drama Tagline: Trust the Journey. Memorable Movie Quote: Theatrical Distributor: Roadside Attractions Official Site: Release Date: May 14, 2021 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Synopsis : After an ill-fated audition at a prestigious New York music conservatory, violinist Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) travels to an Irish coastal village to begin her semester studying abroad. At the B&B run by her host family she encounters gregarious and persistent heartthrob movie star Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), who is there to film another installment of his medieval fantasy-adventure franchise. As romance sparks between the unlikely pair, Beckett ignites a journey of discovery for Finley that transforms her heart, her music, and her outlook on life. In turn, Finley emboldens Beckett to reach beyond his teen-idol image and pursue his true passion. But when forces surrounding Beckett’s stardom threaten to crush their dreams, Finley must decide what she is willing to risk for love.

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FINDING YOU is a romantic drama about a young woman who doesn’t do well in a violin audition, so she decides to follow the follow the footsteps of her brother to a semester abroad in Ireland, where she meets a young movie star shooting a movie. FINDING YOU is a fun, wholesome movie with a strong Christian worldview about finding love, looking for peace in the Cross of Christ, and finding purpose and meaning in life beyond fame and fortune, but there is light, brief foul language and implied drunkenness.

Finley isn’t able to pass an audition even though she has worked day and night practicing the violin. She decides that maybe she could use a little inspiration and follow the footsteps of her brother to a semester abroad in Ireland.

When Finley gets on the plane, she sits next to Beckett, a Hollywood heartthrob who is shooting a movie in Ireland. Beckett seems conceited and egotistical, so Finley doesn’t give into his charm. Seeing as the two are in a small town, they soon run into each other. Finley’s host family owns a Bed and Breakfast. It so happens that Beckett also likes to stay in this quaint, under the radar B&B.

One day, Finley is asked to take out breakfast to a guest, and she walks out and realizes the guest is Beckett. It’s clear now that Beckett and Finley will be spending a lot of time together, out of proximity. Beckett also realizes he could use Finley to help him run his lines. In exchange, he agrees to take Finley around the countryside in his car. Reluctantly, Finley agrees, since she would rather focus on her studies and violin, but she does want to spend time seeing the countryside.

While Finley practices her violin, she finds a sketchbook from her late brother. One drawing has Finley’s name written by a cross. Finley longs to find the meaning of this cross and searches for the peace her brother had during the final days of his life.

FINDING YOU has a strong Christian, biblical worldview about finding peace in the Cross of Christ. The main character has to learn to love and help others, even if they don’t love you back. Another character has to learn to find purpose and meaning in life beyond fame and fortune.

FINDING YOU is a fun, wholesome movie about finding love. The movie is entertaining throughout and will make audiences want to go to Ireland. The storyline itself is a typical romance and the acting isn’t award winning, but FINDING YOU is enjoyable overall. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children because of brief light foul language and implied drunkenness.

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The thoughtful script is predictable but the film manages to be charming nonetheless..

In Theaters: Finley goes to Ireland to study music and regain her confidence after a failed audition. On the way, she meets Beckett, a movie star...and they discover the Emerald Isle together.

Release date May 14, 2021

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Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid) needs to find herself. After failing her audition, the aspiring violinist decides to take a semester and study abroad in Ireland. She hopes the lush green landscape will help her grow her musical talent and the coastal breezes might blow away her self-doubts.

Her bad luck seems to change the moment she decides to leave New York City, beginning with an offer to take a spare seat in first class for her international flight. Then she fortuitously finds herself sitting next to Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), a child-star-turned-leading-man in a series of rather cheesy blockbuster films. Although Finley isn’t quite as impressed with the handsome celebrity as he thinks she should be, the two exchange some judgmental banter until the plane lands and they part ways knowing they will never see each other again.

Of course, there wouldn’t be much of a story here if there wasn’t some drama too. Most of the subplots deal with people making assumptions about others, rather than looking beyond the surface. One of these, featuring a crusty old woman (played by Vanessa Redgrave), is particularly poignant. Another, about the town drunkard (Patrick Bergin), teaches everyone, including Finley, the difference between a violin and a fiddle.

Unlike many movies in this genre, Finding You contains only a smattering of sexual references about how Beckett spends his off-hours and the relationship he has with his beautiful co-star (Katherine McNamara). The male idol is pictured shirtless on occasion, and some kisses are exchanged. Other content is also light, with just a few, mild swear words and social drinking at a pub. Violence makes it to the screen when Beckett plays a dragon-slaying adventure hero on set.

Although the thoughtful script is predictable, it is delightfully embellished by gorgeous scenery, picturesque Irish landmarks and music that will leave you both wanting to jig and contemplating your deepest sorrows. Viewers seeking a charming escape will find exactly what they came for.

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Why is Finding You rated PG? Finding You is rated PG by the MPAA for language and thematic elements.

Violence: Death and grief are talked about. Characters visits old cemeteries – one finds them fascinating, the other creepy. A character with scientific curiosity holds a wriggling earth worm. Movie stars film scenes where they battle fire-breathing dragons with swords, bows and arrows. A fake wound is shown. An angry woman yells and makes threats. Characters are mobbed by fans and paparazzi. A character threatens to hit reports with a stick. Abusive and manipulative relationships are discussed.

Sexual Content: A tabloid features pictures of a shirtless male celebrity drinking and hanging out with scantily dressed women. Affectionate kissing and embracing are shown. Some mild sexual refences are made. Characters make plays for another person’s love interest. Jealousy, grudges and spite are depicted. A sexual slang words is used.

Profanity: Infrequent use of mild profanities, scatological slang, terms of deity and name-calling.

Alcohol / Drug Use: The film includes a character who is depicted as a drunkard – he often sleeps in public places and asks for money. Characters drink at a pub and at social occasions.

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When Finley first meets Beckett, she tells him she knows all about his “type”. Why does she make this assumption? What other characters in the movie are also being assessed by their outward appearances? What do you think the script is trying to say about judging others? As part of her schooling, Finlay is assigned to visit an elderly woman in a seniors’ home in order to understand Irish culture. What do you think you would learn about culture if you talked to a person from an older generation? Are there other benefits from doing this kind of service? One character tells another, “You never know where you are going to be tomorrow.” How might contemplating that statement change the choices you make? Would you take more risks? Does knowing there could be a tomorrow make you consider consequences? Another character says, “Joy and sorrow are linked together like day and night.” What do you learn from this insight?

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Robinne Lee’s 2017 debut novel “ The Idea of You ” followed an almost 40-year-old woman who enters a romance with the star of a giant boyband sensation. The book was a giant hit, in no small part due to fans viewing one of the main characters as a stand-in for One Direction’s Harry Styles . Now comes a movie adaptation from the director of “The Big Sick,” which translates the novel while making enough changes to improve upon the source material, including a fantastic ending that puts a perfect bow on the story.

But when her idiot of an ex-husband Daniel (Reid Scott, fully embracing the douchery of the character and relishing in it) bails on taking their 16-year-old daughter Izzy (newcomer Ella Rubin, looking just like a young Hathaway circa “The Princess Diaries”), it falls on Solène to take a group of teens to see their childhood favorite band August Moon in the desert, fighting through a crowd to get to a restroom — though a fancy trailer with a shirtless pop star can also do the trick. After a couple of intense glances and a grand on-stage gesture, the two decide to explore a relationship, despite three main issues — they live in different cities, they have a 15-year age gap, and he is a superstar with an obsessed fanbase while she is just a small-time art gallery owner. It would be easy to draw comparisons to “Notting Hill,” but this movie is so much more. 

While the biggest selling point of “The Idea of You” is Hathaway’s Solène dating a guy much younger than her, the script (by Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt) uses this as an entry point to a much larger and poignant story. Sure, there are acknowledgments about it, but the film subverts certain expectations by having Hayes act rather mature and self-aware for his age, saying what he wants and also letting Solène make decisions and recognize her freedoms. As for Solène, she does start by mostly being interested in having fun with a young, rich guy, but the movie never makes it about reliving glory or reclaiming Solène’s youth. 

Instead, the biggest setback for the two is less about the age and more about Solène being the owner of a small art gallery and Hayes being a superstar. More specifically, the movie explores idol/boyband culture and how we treat their partners. “Nobody likes a happy woman,” one of Soléne’s friends tells her, and that is at the center of the story. The film has some poignant commentary on the hypocrisy of people ignoring men dating much younger women, but vilifying women dating younger men in the public eye — and how much this comes from the bands’ fans. 

If there’s one big flaw to this boyband love letter, it’s that the fictional boyband August Moon is not very convincing as a superstar band. Savan Kotecha’s original songs are catchy, but the actors, particularly Galitzine never manage to sing or dance the way the number one 20-something singer on the planet would. Sure, he is young and hot, but he doesn’t exude the kind of larger-than-life yet relatable and down-to-earth aura that boyband members do, which ends up being a bit distracting throughout the film.

What makes the character fascinating and unique is how she is not trying to recreate her younger years or reclaim her lost youth. Instead, Solène is just finding herself in this new stage of her life, learning what she wants, and growing into her new self. Life doesn’t end on motherhood, let alone end on 40. There is still plenty of time to find yourself, find love, get a heartbreak and push yourself into more. Hathaway captures this with incredible vulnerability, but also a self-awareness and confidence in what she wants that makes Solène excel at both the comedy and drama of the story. Early on, Hayes says people don’t really know him, they know the idea of him. By the end of this adaptation, we get the full picture of this romance and the two people involved.

“The Idea of You” premiered at SXSW 2024. It will stream exclusively on Prime Video beginning on May 2.

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You’ll Never Find Me review – profoundly creepy and thrillingly bold Australian horror film

This debut feature steeps you in a kind of waking nightmare – with a shockingly brilliant final act you may not be able to forget

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T he debut feature from Adelaide film-makers Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen is thrillingly bold and inventive despite being steeped in familiar horror tropes: a darkened hallway, flashes of lightning, creaking walls and floorboards, the howling of wind. In this way, You’ll Never Find Me – which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca film festival and is released nationally on Thursday – reminded me of the pleasures of reading Edgar Allan Poe or HP Lovecraft, whose narratives are filled with foundational horror elements but unfold with a kind of unselfconscious purity (or perhaps “sickliness” is a better word), coming alive in the magical ebb and flow of the prose.

There’s a feverishly wet and moody ambience to this film; it feels like it’s dripping all over you.

The story begins when a young unnamed woman credited only as “The Visitor” knocks on a caravan door, seeking shelter from a dark and stormy night. “I’m just trying to work out what is actually happening here,” says the woman, played by Jordan Cowan, and she might as well be speaking for the audience. We’ll too spend thrilling moments of this morbidly great chamber piece trying to get our heads around what’s going on.

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Inside the caravan is Patrick (Brendan Rock), a weary and worried-looking man with soft features, whose hobbies include staring glumly ahead and philosophising about the nature of human behaviour. The woman says the weather has “gone fucking crazy out there”, not that we need her to draw attention to it – the storm is a huge part of the film, seeming to shake its very foundations. She asks for a lift into town but Patrick is more interested in sharing weighty, melancholic reflections, discussing how he tries to “avoid sleep altogether” even though things become “more confused, more entwined”. An intensely heightened mood helps the cast get away with lines that might’ve felt awfully heavy-handed elsewhere, such as “it doesn’t matter where you hide” and “I’m afraid you’ve knocked on the wrong door.”

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Allen and Bell, who also wrote the screenplay, reveal mysteries both small and large; by the end, they prompt a reassessment of the entire experience to fully appreciate certain aspects of it. Early on, for instance, we see Patrick clutching a small vial of clear liquid … what is it? Much later, in the final act, the frame is bathed in overripe, giallo-esque blues and reds; these colours are moody as all get-out, but are deployed for other, very clever reasons – not to be spoiled here.

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Both leading performances are excellent. Brendan Rock brings rueful, enigmatically deep and dark qualities: the deflated look of a man lost inside himself. He’s courteous and polite, offering his “Visitor” a shower and food, but speaks too slowly, as if he’s burdened by a thousand sins pushing his feet through the ground. And Jordan Cowan holds herself so well, juggling steeliness and nervousness, confidence and vulnerability, her big probing eyes evoking various metaphors: eyes as the doors of perception, the windows to the soul, the mirrors of the mind.

We’re aware that she’s knocked on his door, making the first move, dramatically speaking. One can sense a peculiar cat and mouse game going on, though we’re not sure who is who, obscured as everything is by layers of deception. The characters don’t seem to trust each other, and we don’t trust them, or the directors for that matter. There’s a niggling sense that something is terribly wrong, but for a long time we can’t be sure what.

Jordan Cowan’s eyes evoke various metaphors – as ‘the doors of perception, the windows to the soul, the mirrors of the mind’.

In one scene Patrick discusses the past in his typically morose style, but doesn’t turn to face his companion: a simple but effective way of making the encounter weird and unsettling – though perhaps we’re jumping at shadows, reading too much into it. The directors give this scene, and indeed the film more generally, lots of oxygen and room to get the viewer psychologically lost; they fill the picture with long, suspenseful dramatic passages that creep and swell its joints, bringing a feeling of heaviness, of heaving, of compounding pressure.

Bell and Allen have created something very difficult: an environment that feels like it’s situated at the edge of consciousness, a kind of waking nightmare. The caravan seems to float around the outskirts of the universe, or perhaps the dark recesses of the psyche.

You’ll Never Find Me builds a profoundly creepy and spiralling momentum before everything comes together in a shockingly brilliant final act with twists that nobody will see coming – or be able to forget.

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Hathaway’s rockin' single-mom character doesn't need a boyfriend, much less a boy-band fling to fulfill her. But her on-and-off romance with Nicholas Galitzine's smitten pop star feels like one for the ages.

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When you’re 10, it sounds like every line your favorite boy band sings is being aimed directly at you. Somewhere along the way, the illusion shatters. Teenagers are smarter than we give them credit for, and they eventually figure out how parasocial relationships operate: Basically, the fans do all the work, saving up for concert tickets and glitter-painting their idols’ names on their notebooks, while the lab-tested singers soak up all the love … and the allowance money. But what if, instead of the feelings flowing in one direction, a pop star fell hard for one of his followers? Or her mom?

Dad bought them all VIP passes to a meet-and-greet with August Moon, the band Izzy used to be obsessed with in seventh grade (emphasis on “used to be”). Now that she’s in high school, the fivesome just seems corny — which is the same opinion parents had all along, but somehow had to put aside to support their kids. So imagine Solène’s surprise when she goes looking for the honey bucket and winds up face-to-face with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), “the British one.” Solène recognizes him, but doesn’t get all star-struck, and something about that dynamic excites him. Here’s a woman he might actually have to put some effort into getting to know.

Miraculously enough, audiences don’t question it. The meet-cute seems a little contrived, but the chemistry between Hathaway and Galitzine feels real. She subtly conveys signals that show she’s lost faith in romance, suggesting that because Solène’s been burned by love before, she can’t be bothered to flirt. For his part, Galitzine plays Hayes as instantly interested, but emotionally cautious as well. Watching these two warm up to one another over the course of an art-shopping afternoon back in Los Angeles proves far more romantic than the whirlwind tour of Europe that follows. Surprisingly, the sexiest scene in the whole film doesn’t involve sex but a hungry first kiss — though there’s steam enough to come, as they ravage hotel rooms in Barcelona, Rome and Paris.

In a sense, the eponymous “idea of you” refers to an aspect of the relationship Solène naively thinks she can keep to herself, despite the vulture-like way the paparazzi follow them everywhere. Showalter takes us into a pop star’s inner circle, bringing the cameras backstage at concerts, aboard private jets and along for a glitzy vacation in the south of France. (Weirdly, reverse shots of the arena-show crowds seem downright tame, nothing like the delirious hysteria of “A Hard Day’s Night” or “TRL.”) Celebrities belong to the public in a way civilian Solène has never experienced before, and because she wants no part of that attention, their love affair may as well have no future.

That’s one aspect of the book that upset its readers, and which Showalter has carefully reengineered here so that audiences can have the ending they want. For all its fantastical qualities, the movie is realistic in the way it anticipates social media and real media (the online tabloids, at least) reacting to the news of Solène and Hayes’ being together. It’s a sad truth that, as Solène tells art-world bestie Tracy (Annie Mumolo), the world doesn’t want her to be happy. Technically, the fans don’t want Hayes to be happy either, preferring to think of him as single and searching for them to fill that empty space in his heart.

There are a thousand ways that Showalter could have tilted the film toward parody. Instead, he resists poking fun at the whole pop-tart phenomenon, which meta-comedies like “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” and “Josie and Pussycats” treated as self-aware satire. Here, Hayes is terrified of being seen as a joke, and though Solène insists he’s not, she doesn’t take the relationship seriously enough to tell a soul. But Showalter does, tapping songwriter Savan Kotecha to come up with a slew of plausible hits, including a track called “Closer” that turns the May-December dynamic into catchy Top 40 gold. For all the challenges that adapting Lee’s book posed, getting the music right had to be the toughest — with fixing that ending being a close second.

Reviewed at SXSW (Headliners, closer), March 16, 2024. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 116 MIN.

  • Production: A Prime Video release of a Amazon MGM Studios presentation of a Somewhere Pictures, Welle Entertainment production. Producers: Cathy Schulman, Gabrielle Union, Anne Hathaway, Robinne Lee, Eric Hayes, Michael Showalter, Jordana Mollick. Executive producers: Douglas S. Jones, Jason Babiszewski, Jennifer Westfeldt, Kian Gass.
  • Crew: Director: Michael Showalter. Screenplay: Michael Showalter, Jennifer Westfeldt, based on the book by Robinne Lee. Camera: Jim Frohna. Editor: Peter Teschner. Music: Siddhartha Khosla. Music supervisor: Frankie Pine.
  • With: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Annie Mumolo, Reid Scott, Perry Mattfeld, Jordan Aaron Hall, Mathilda Gianopoulos, Raymond Cham Jr., Jaiden Anthony, Viktor White, Dakota Adan.

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Finding You

2019, Drama/Romance, 1h 37m

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Nel uses his condition, hyperthymesia, for his work as a journalist. This gives him the ability to remember everything in the past -- until he sees a throwback post he supposedly wrote about a girl who apparently broke his heart.

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Original Language: Filipino

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Release Date (Streaming): Jul 18, 2019

Runtime: 1h 37m

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Solene is a Californian art gallery owner and single mother who had initially planned a solo camping trip. However, her plans are rerouted when she assumes the responsibility of taking her daughter Izzy (Ella Rubin) to Coachella, after Izzy’s father, Daniel (Reid Scott), is detained by work commitments. Seeking a moment of peace amid the festival’s chaos, Solene retreats to a trailer for a bathroom break, which leads her to a serendipitous meeting with Hayes.

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The highlight comes when Hayes dedicates a performance of “Closer” to Solene, marking the beginning of an unforeseen connection. Drawn to her indifference towards his fame, Hayes pursues Solene, sparking the question: Will she embrace the possibility of romance with a younger man, or will her reservations about their age difference hinder her pursuit of happiness?

The Idea of You shines when it delves into the introspection and self-awareness that comes with significant life milestones. Solene’s foray into the dating world, post-40, encapsulates the awkwardness of adulthood and the narrowing of options that accompanies it. This is compounded by the consideration of a younger partner, which the film approaches with a candidness. 

The film’s overreliance on exposition makes it feel like I’ve watched internet fanfiction come to life rather than a fleshed-out cinematic story. This is no slight to fanfiction, which can offer insights into character and emotion, but in a film seeking to carve out space in the rom-com genre, the balance between fantasy and realism can be muddy if not careful. Showalter and Jennifer Westfeldt’s script seems OK with that.

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My favorite aspect of the film is the relationship between Solene and her daughter Izzy as the chemistry between Hathaway and Rubin is palpable. They present a mother-daughter dynamic that stands as the film’s emotional core. Hathaway’s portrayal is nuanced and layered, offering a glimpse into the complexities of Solene’s character that is both compelling and relatable. The acknowledgment of the film’s unbalanced romance and its implications for Solene’s life choices, particularly concerning her daughter’s well-being, introduces a layer of depth that is the real backbone of The Idea Of You . 

However, the relationship between Solene and Hayes struggles under the weight of believability. Galitzine’s portrayal, while earnest, fails to match Hathaway’s depth, rendering their connection less convincing. This exploration feels somewhat superficial, overshadowed by a script more concerned with romantic idealization than the messier, more meaningful aspects of love and life.

In an era hungry for rom-coms that both entertain and enlighten, this film positions itself as a contender. However, its execution leaves it languishing in the realm of what could have been. Coupled with the length, and a saccharine resolution that undercuts its more serious undertones, The Idea of You renders it a fleeting pleasure rather than a lasting impact. Either way, it will no doubt find its audience, those yearning for escapism wrapped in the glow of star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of music and fame. Hathaway’s performance offers moments of genuine emotion and connection that hint at the film’s potential, which keeps things together long enough to be enjoyable.

Title:  The Idea of You Festival: SXSW  (Closing Night) Distributor:  Amazon MGM Studios Release date:  May 2, 2024 Director:  Michael Showalter Screenwriter:  Michael Showalter and Jennifer Jennifer Westfeldt Cast:  Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Annie Mumolo, Reid Scott, Perry Mattfeld, Jordan Aaron Hall, Mathilda Gianopoulos, Raymond Cham Jr., Jaiden Anthony, Viktor White, Dakota Adan Rating:  R Running time:  1 hr 55 min

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“Love Lies Bleeding” and the Perils of Genre

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Some filmmakers use the conventions of genre as guideposts as they lead viewers into strange territory, as Jordan Peele did with horror in “ Get Out .” Others use the same markers to keep viewers on well-worn paths. The British filmmaker Rose Glass’s début feature, “ Saint Maud ,” from 2019—in which a young nurse pursues religious faith to the point of delusion—promised in its early scenes to be a modern classic of fanaticism along the lines of Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed.” But Glass pressed the action into the sensational tropes of horror and left the characters and the subject undeveloped. In her second feature, “Love Lies Bleeding,” she does something similar—but to different effect. The movie, shot from a script by Glass and Weronika Tofilska, is based on a good idea, a battle to reveal the hidden grip of a predatory small-town patriarch, but here, too, Glass’s reliance on genre conventions—in this case, those of neo-noir—prevents her from fully working out the narrative premise. The result is more entertaining this time, though, because Glass fashions the premise into such a clever, brisk, and twisty story.

The focus of “Love Lies Bleeding” is a young woman, Lou ( Kristen Stewart ), who’s stuck in her New Mexico home town. She’s a gym manager with little to manage but much grunt work to do; the film’s first sequence finds her unclogging a toilet with a gloved hand. Lou can’t take her eyes off a new arrival at the gym, a well-muscled woman named Jackie (Katy O’Brian), who works at a gun range. Jackie is a drifter who has hitchhiked to town en route to Las Vegas, where she plans to take part in a bodybuilding competition. She and Lou become lovers the same night they meet and, the next morning, Jackie moves in.

The town’s evil patriarch is Lou’s father, Lou, Sr. (Ed Harris), who owns the gym and the gun range, and also, essentially, the police department. He’s been getting away with murder for years, and when Lou was younger he involved her in his crimes. She loathes him but remains tethered to him, because she must stay in town to help her sister, Beth (Jena Malone), who is trapped in an abusive marriage to a guy named J.J. (Dave Franco). Lou also wants to help Jackie, and offers her a supply of illegal steroid shots to boost her chances in Las Vegas. Jackie quickly bulks up but also develops a severe case of ’roid rage, leading to a terrifying act of vigilante justice. Now Lou must find a way to dispose of evidence. Thanks to Lou, Sr.,’s horrific example, Lou knows what to do, but her father, ever tentacular, gets wind of what’s going on. Fearing that the young lovers will expose his bloody deeds, he lays plans to silence them—and anyone else he thinks may compromise him.

The tale unfolds with wit and dramatic flair. Even on second viewing, with surprises dispelled and spoilers spoiled, the twists hold up, as engrossing to anticipate as they previously were to be jolted by. But this is a movie that gives with one hand and takes away with the other, and as its pleasures mount so, too, does a sense of emptiness. The events onscreen don’t feel so much observed as dispensed, as if the filmmaker’s inspirations peaked at the keyboard. Glass pegs “Love Lies Bleeding” to its genre with splashes of gore, garish light effects, and flamboyantly grotesque idiosyncrasies, such as Lou, Sr.,’s affection for big and exotic insects, and his conspicuously dubious hair style.

Amid the generalized atmosphere of seaminess, the specifics of the main characters’ lives get elided. Lou’s traumatic past is examined only as much as is necessary to establish, in a series of quick flashbacks, her participation in her father’s crimes. The movie, cutting from one plot point to the next, doesn’t give the two women much space or time for the sorts of offhand conversation that can reveal character; they share few confidences and disclose no observations or opinions, no tastes or distastes. What they do share is sexual desire. Their mutual attraction is the movie’s prime force. Most of the sex scenes, while forthright, are conventional, with rounds of writhing and panting, but one of them, rooted in the couple’s explicit talk about pleasure, is unusual and acute. Ultimately, though, desire seems to be all that defines the women’s bond.

The movie’s incuriosity about the characters’ larger ideas and experiences dulls one of its enticing peculiarities. “Love Lies Bleeding” is a period piece, set in 1989, an era evoked from the start by an odd collection of vintage cars, including Lou’s two-tone pickup. People make calls on landlines and pay phones, and a news broadcast reports East Germans facing no opposition as they jubilantly cross over to the West. Yet Lou and Jackie have nothing to say about the events of their time and show little interest in the wider world. The one cultural object in Lou’s apartment is a 1988 book of short stories by Patrick Califia, “ Macho Sluts ,” a pioneering work of lesbian B.D.S.M. literature; it gets more attention from a nosy F.B.I. agent than from Lou or Jackie.

In this regard, “Love Lies Bleeding” is very much a movie of the current moment; it resembles such acclaimed recent releases as “ Past Lives ” and “ All of Us Strangers ” in its presentation of protagonists whose intellectual and cultural lives are portrayed only to the extent that they serve the plot. Today, the labor of movies is increasingly being outsourced—to viewers. Many films are basically kits that require the audience to do the work not merely of interpretation but of characterization, based on a handful of clues. For Lou, these details are her sisterly bond with Beth and her criminal one with the father she hates; as for Jackie, she was adopted at thirteen—a bullied fat kid who therefore learned to fight, and then fled the religious narrowness of her home town in rural Oklahoma. Those specifics frame “Love Lies Bleeding” as a game of cinematic Mad Libs, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks with whatever traits, interests, inclinations, enthusiasms, and backstories they like.

Such blankness is all the stranger because Glass nods to a film that relies on similar material but achieves far more with it—the first-generation noir classic “Bigger Than Life,” from 1956, which has the distinction of being, in effect, a primordial ’roid-rage movie. Directed by Nicholas Ray and based on reporting, in this magazine, by Berton Roueché, the movie stars James Mason as a schoolteacher named Ed who is given a diagnosis of a vascular disease that would likely be fatal were it not for a new “miracle drug,” cortisone. But the medicine has side effects, and Ed experiences grandiose delusions that ultimately make him violent. Ray symbolizes this derangement with startling images, at one point using forced perspective to make Ed appear taller than a school building. Taking a cue from Ray, Glass briefly, ingeniously depicts the steroid-addled Jackie as an actual giant able to grab people as if they were dolls. But where the framework of “Bigger Than Life” is a starting point for surprisingly far-reaching psychological and cultural explorations, the framework of “Love Lies Bleeding” serves as a boundary limiting both character and context.

Although the roles in Glass’s film are not deeply defined, she nonetheless revels in the presence and manner of her actors, whose formidable personalities burst out of the tight bonds of plot to give the film a plausible semblance of life. I first took note of O’Brian’s assertive vigor in the wan Marvel contrivance “ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ” (2023), where she was one of the few authentic elements. And though the part of Jackie is more of a showcase than a genuine challenge, it’s good to see her given more screen time and a greater variety of situations in which to develop her talent. Stewart, of course, has not lacked for leading roles, but “Love Lies Bleeding” does more than spotlight her distinctive artistry; it suggests aspects of her acting that remain untapped. Her star power is atypical: she doesn’t so much fill the screen, the way most charismatic actors do, as bend it to fit her by a force of will so natural that it hardly looks like any effort at all. That’s why her performances appear as casual as they are intense, why her acting seems nearly like not acting.

With this singular style, Stewart dominates “Love Lies Bleeding.” Glass deploys Stewart’s mode of performance as a familiar element, and, instead of becoming the character, the character becomes Stewart. But there’s another, less seen side to Stewart: her virtuosity. In Pablo Larraín’s film “ Spencer ” (2021), she incarnated Princess Diana so completely as to render herself nearly unrecognizable. She hasn’t yet had a role that fuses both sides of her talent, the personality and the creativity, the nature and the inventiveness. Ultimately, the true genre of “Love Lies Bleeding” is a Kristen Stewart movie. That genre, too, is one that the director neither expands nor reinvents. ♦

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