Song One (2015)
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Despite the delicate shadings Hathaway brings to the role, Song One moves inexorably from wan to wearying.
There are no real surprises here, just lives played out quietly and succinctly under the seductive spell of music.
In her feature debut, writer/director Kate Barker-Froyland tends to tiptoe away from the dramatic high notes that audiences often crave and comes up a stanza or two short from a fulfilling resolution.
The film, like the world it's part of, remains just a little too precious, a little too self-involved, a little too insular. Instead of singing out, directly to us, it hums its little tune only to itself.
Starts off as a singularly strong slice-of-life drama before dissipating into thin air.
Anyone with the slightest allergy to emo-tinged millennial attitudinizing should steer clear.
Audience Reviews for Song One
I couldn't get into it. I watched most, but it's very long and slow moving (actually it's not long at under 90 minutes, but it feels it). It's not bad as such, but I was bored.
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Anne Hathaway and Johnny Flynn make the type of couple, that makes you wonder "Why are THEY together?" I think the point of the movie, was to answer that question. Their sort of morbid meet cute is what the whole movie is based on, but the story I would have been more interested in is the after they got together. How did they make it last, and how did the music change? This is a beautiful back story, but it should have been just that.
Wow. Too quiet. Too slow. Too Low energy. Too boring. If they had just modulated it up a little, it could have been a good movie.
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