Synopsis
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
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Cast
- Emily BrowningEve
- Olly AlexanderJames
- Hannah MurrayCass
- Pierre BoulangerAnton
- Cora BissettMiss Browning
- Sarah SwireBallerina
- Mark RadcliffeFindlay
- Stuart MaconieDonovan
- Ann Scott-JonesHairdresser
- Josie LongMaxine
Recommendations
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Village Voice
Browning captures Eve's weariness and enthusiasm, and her lovely voice and crisp delivery gives Murdoch's labored lyrics a vulnerable immediacy. - 67
IndieWire
God Help the Girl doesn’t quite succeed in convincing the viewer to toss conventional character development out the window, it still has its moments. - 64
Film.com
Murdoch’s film is fraught with ambition and aspiration, but a little thin on talent and technique. - 60
The Guardian
God Help the Girl comes loose and easy, verging on the slipshod. It's warm and generous, verging on the sentimental; a film that crystallises the best and worst of Belle and Sebastian's songwriting skills. - 60
Empire
As Marmite-y as Stuart Murdoch's music, you'll find it either winningly charming or irritatingly fey. Either way, its warmth shines through. - 60
The Dissolve
While Murdoch exhibits masterful control in a recording studio, he isn’t a natural-born filmmaker. Much of God Help The Girl feels haphazardly stitched together, with pieces missing or placed in the wrong order, as though Murdoch didn’t get all the footage he needed. - 50
Variety
It will be up to viewers to decide whether God Help the Girl is ingratiatingly naive art, gratingly inept art, or a bit of both. - 50
Slant Magazine
Stuart Murdoch clearly knows quite a bit about crafting pop tunes, but the film's consideration of the work of songwriting is totally flippant.
