Friday, October 16, 2015

God Help the Girl 2014


God Help the Girl (UK) 27x40 Movie Poster (2014)     Eve is in the hospital because she hasn’t been taking care of herself, she is struggling with depression, she’s not been eating and she attempted suicide.  A therapist is working with her to show her she can’t do anything she wants to accomplish if she doesn’t feed herself first.  Eve keeps leaving the hospital but she really needs to stay.  She begins to write songs to start to heal and she travels to the city, the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.  She meets James and Cassie.  They also want to write songs and they want to help Eve.  James finds a place for her to live and she gets a job as a waitress.
     There were a lot of times I didn’t know if I could finish this film?  There is a lot of imagination in the plot and I wasn’t sure what was real and what was not.  The film becomes a pick and choose, like the songs, hate the plot?  Don’t like the songs, wish for more plot?  Just watching the three lead actors and their cuteness only gets you so far?  2 ½*  (This movie is so-so)

112 min, Drama directed by Stuart Murdoch with Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger, Cora Bisset, Sarah Swire, Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie, Ann Scott-Jones, Josie Long.

Note:  Imdb 6.4 out of 10, 69% critic 60% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.
Special Note:  Writer and director Stuart Murdoch wrote the songs while he was between records and tours as the lead singer of the Scottish band Belle & Sebastian. 

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