God
Help The Girl (2014/Anchor Bay DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: B
Written
and Directed by Stuart Murdoch of the popular band Bell and
Sebastian, God Help The Girl (2014) is a feel good journey
into the mind of an aspiring musician and her oddball musician
friends who are always up to something wacky. The film is nicely
shot and produced and creates an interesting world for these
characters that reminds me a lot of last years Begin Again
with Keira Knightley. All in all, the film is a charming easy watch
and definitely worth checking out if you are into the music scene.
The
film stars the gorgeous Emily Browning (of Sucker Punch) who
holds the lead role swimmingly here with the perfect amount of charm
and determination. The film also stars Hannah Murray (of Game of
Thrones) and Olly Alexander (real life musician of the band Years
and Years.)
Writer/director
Murdoch creates a poignant coming-of-age story that doubles as a
sublime indie-pop musical from one of indie pop's biggest
songwriters. The project began as a suite of songs, written while
Murdoch was between records and tours as lead singer of Belle &
Sebastian. He nurtured it for nearly a decade into a fully formed
film, set in the bohemian fantasia of Glasgow's West End, which is
populated by mods, rockers, and emo kids who have no qualms about
breaking into song and dance.
Presentation
on the disc is of a high quality for DVD but would benefit from a
Blu-ray version, here in a standard definition transfer in a 1.85:1
widescreen anamorphic aspect ratio and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1
track.
Extras
include Deleted Scenes, Origins, and God Help The Girl Music Video.
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James Harland Lockhart V
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