Spoilers: The on-screen version of the Michael Showalter picture, which stars Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, achieves a more romantic conclusion. – The idea of you
In Nicholas Galitzine‘s film The Idea of You, Hayes Campbell, a 24-year-old romantic interest, is not Harry Styles. He’s not Harry Styles, though. He’s British, he has tattoos, he likes big cardigans, and he plays in a boy band that he’s almost outgrowing.
The Idea of You isn’t Harry Styles fan fiction, a new subgenre, but Hayes does maintain the vague framework of a projection. Author Robinne Lee has acknowledged the former member of One Direction as an inspiration for the book on which the film is based.
As the title implies, he is an idea—the attractive young pop artist who stays above the mainstream while yet reaping the rewards of fame and fortune. He is more talented, more sensitive, and more likely to fall in love with an older lady than to merely admire her beauty.
Though not in the way you may think after reading the movie’s logline, The Idea of You is a fiction. Its escape is less sensual than demographic, a fantasy of being able to engage in a cultural offering that isn’t for you anymore. Michael Showalter directs it with uninspired skill.
Reid Scott’s character Solène recently got divorced from finance jerk Dan, and she’s trying not to show her anger at him for going after a younger coworker. She cannot be an August Moon fan, which is Hayes’s band.
The movie makes obvious from her meeting with a middle-aged Moonhead brandishing a poster in the VIP lounge that it would be humiliating. As Hayes informs her, August Moon is a manufactured product, created from head pictures on a wall from five gorgeous lads with distinct identities.
Izzy (Ella Rubin), Solène’s 17-year-old daughter, has already outgrown their music, which is only composed of teenage longing. However, she finds a way to enjoy Hayes’ presentation shamelessly because of her friendship with him, which was ignited when she accidentally enters his trailer believing it to be the restroom.
The film celebrates the sensation of being serenaded by someone who makes it obvious that the pop song Hayes is singing is for you while standing on the side of the stage in front of an arena full of screaming teenagers, even as it assures us that Hayes is more than just a teenybopper by showing him doodle around on a guitar in support of his own compositions.
This is a more seductive product than it seems. With her Silver Lake Craftsman, her group of close friends, and her endearing business, Solène’s life is desirable but also quite mature. The experience of dating as a forty-something is hinted at in a montage whereby Solène is approached by uncomfortable or romantically involved guys at her birthday celebration.
On the meantime, Hayes is there with his straightforward love songs and his nomadic lifestyle, traveling on a private jet and spending time in European towns in between performances – a life free of adult burdens.
When he and Solène first spend time together, it’s in a hotel room above Manhattan, a picture-perfect setting where they can throw caution to the wind and cuddle up with room service. It’s a seductive sequence, but all the other passionate moments are tucked behind montages that put more emphasis on the picture of them stretching out on plush sheets than on them actually getting into bed.
Hayes convinces an initially reluctant Solène to accompany him on tour while Izzy is at camp and her gallery has been completely depleted by his purchases. This interlude is portrayed as a frenzied swirl of sightseeing and tumbling about several leased suites — a romance as holiday.
After the more funnier Red, White & Royal Blue, Galitzine never quite manages to evoke the magnetism of a great performer. That doesn’t really ruin the film because Solène is the main focus, and Hathaway performs a really beautiful and vulnerable job in the role.
She exudes confidence as a woman rediscovering deep, sweeping emotions and reassuring herself that these are not just the preserve of youth. Because Hathaway, 41, hardly resembles her 29-year-old co-star, much of the provocation that is supposed to accompany the lovers’ age difference is subdued.
The movie is seductive even though the actors don’t have natural chemistry because of the spectacle of Solène becoming attracted to someone. She seems like she just stepped into the spotlight as she arrives in New York wearing heels and a trench coat that she pulls off to expose a transparent dress.
Even with its restraint, The Idea of You is surprisingly compelling. It could stand to be a bit more indulgent, though, since it lets the real world jump into its unexpected connection practically before it gets started. It’s one thing to sing along to a One Direction song in private, but it’s quite another to relive the emotions captured in one of those catchy choruses.
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