2014 · comedy · drama · music
God Help the Girl
Directed by Stuart Murdoch1h 51m2014
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a band.
Our read: God Help the Girl (2014) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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