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Director: David Mackenzie
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From Time Out London
The idea of shooting an off-the-cuff, ‘Before Sunrise’-style romcom live on the grounds of a music festival is a strong one, and ‘You Instead’ captures the sights, sounds and almost the smells of last year’s rainswept T in the Park. Sadly, every other aspect of David Mackenzie’s movie – an overfamiliar love story between two mismatched musicians handcuffed together for no good reason – is unconvincing. It’s largely down to a dull, self-satisfied script, which ditches characterisation in favour of a wealth of unnecessary, unlikeable side characters and crude bed-hopping antics. This blandness seeps into every part of the movie: the performances are uninspired, the photography unexciting and the music mostly a parade of nonentities, from wacky-hatted pixie Paloma Faith to ginger-dreadlocked acoustic sasquatch Newton Faulkner. The result is occasionally amusing but too often aggravating: pretty people in ugly places listening to crap pop and looking pleased with themselves.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 2143: 15 – 21 September, 2011
User reviews of this film
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- tom huddleston said...
- Posted on Sep 18 2011 10:24 Alex, you left out the word pretty´. i hate being misquoted. but otherwise, yep, that´s about right.
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- xXXx said...
- Posted on Sep 15 2011 20:55 Google "yougov film critics" for the great "Five Stars?" survey on why people choose the films they go and see. Time Out registers at about 0% influence, ALL critics get 6% but 5.5% is Wossy, Kermode and James King. Depressing reading for film critics...I bet this gets removed as film critics don't like bad reviews...
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- Alex Forte said...
- Posted on Sep 14 2011 11:17 "People in ugly places listening to crap pop and looking pleased with themselves." Surely the offices of Time Out?
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Cast & crew
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Luke Treadaway, Natalie Tena, Mathew Baynton, Ruta Gedmintas, Sophie Wu, Gavin Mitchell, Alastair Mackenzie
Rated: 15
Duration: 80 mins
UK Release: Sep 9 2011
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