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Thursday, 20 November 2014

GOD HELP THE GIRL [2014]

The musical drama God Help The Girl coincides with Belle & Sebastion frontman Stuart Murdoch's music project of the same.
It's a coming-of-age tale about a confused girl who escapes from a psychiatric ward and forms a band with some new found friends, who have a lot to learn about life themselves.  It's filled with warmth, easy to like characters, great music and enough charm to make it hard not to like.  However it's a jumbled mess when it comes to making a point or finding a direction it wants to face and stick with it.  It's inevitable this film will become a fashion icon for hipster teens who feel just as lost as the characters do and in that I suppose it does serve some sort of purpose.

3 Wobbly-Legged Rats out of 5

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