2011 · music · romance · comedy
You Instead
Directed by David Mackenzie1h 20m2011
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.
Our read: You Instead (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded music · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle music / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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