You Instead (15, 80 mins)
Director: David Mackenzie
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
Filmed entirely at the T in the Park festival in 2010,
this underwhelming drama breaks into a story of sorts when a member of an
American band ends up handcuffed to a British girl for a night of incidents and
arguments that follows rom-com conventions. It’s a plot device you might see on
a children’s TV drama, and one that lends itself to little of interest. The
sheer scale of the endeavour makes it visually arresting, and it has a certain
grungy charm and a couple of moments of spontaneous fun, but mostly it’s just a
bunch of annoying people in the mud and rain. It’s not a film, it’s a companion
piece for festivalgoers, an experiment to see if a movie can be shot in a
couple of days. In that regard, at least it’s been proven that it can’t.
I saw You Instead at this years T-In The Park and have to say that you must be really old, this is one very funny and well acted film which captures the festival spirit completely, I was at T in 2010, and I was reminded how brilliant that weekend was for me and my friends through this movie, David McKenzie...THANK YOU!!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. The first thing we all said after seeing the film was that if you're a festivalgoer, you'll love it. It just doesn't seem to offer much for anyone else.
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