Brett Haley
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High Fidelity (2000)
Directed by Stephen Frears
influenced Hearts Beat Loud (2018)
Characters Themes Plot
For the past 17 years the cantankerous Frank has run Red Hook Records, despite his High Fidelity-style approach to customer service.
Yes, shades of High Fidelity should indeed come to mind but, this is more than mere music snobbery.
Today the shop is endangered due to rising rents, but in any case it’s not clear how they could have survived on what can’t have been much of an income—Frank is an older version of John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity , more interested in maintaining his sense of superiority over customers than in selling records, and isn’t interested in cashing in on the hipster taste for vinyl—but they have a spacious and comfortable apartment, nice clothes, and apparently none of the problems that tend accompany real, rather than hipster, poverty, from bad teeth to poor education to abuse by the police.
Picture an older version of John Cusack’s list-obsessed record store owner in High Fidelity, a guy whose cynical worldview has mellowed into something approaching resigned indifference.
High Fidelity (2000), Empire Records (1995), Ghost World (2001), and even Last Shop Standing , Pip Piper 2012’s documentary about the rise and fall of about two dozen independent mom-and-pop outlets in the U.K., all gave me a tickle.
The first scenes give every indication that we’re going to see a lackluster update of High Fidelity.
Though we do get a glimpse of those bustling high school classrooms, Netflix’s new original film All the Bright Places instead falls somewhere between The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl , at the rather more melancholy end of the genre.
Adapted by Jennifer Niven and Liz Hannah from Niven’s bestselling young adult novel, Haley’s feature contains all the necessary ingredients for success that films like “The Fault in Our Stars” and its ilk have — undeniably cute leads adept at conjuring cheers and tears, a solid soundtrack and a pass-the-tissues third act — yet its pure beating heart and humanistic undertones make it somewhat of a standout.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: The Fault in Our Stars is also a weepie, and also a YA adaptation, and also put a young actress of impressive skill — Shailene Woodley — in the lead, all the better to wave the red cape in front of the charging bull of your tears.
For connoisseurs of the genre, the vibe here falls somewhere between “The Fault in Our Stars” and “After.”
The themes here are rich, the treatment indulgent and harmless, like a pre-fab version of a John Carney movie (“Once,” “Begin Again”).
Hearts Beat Loud is best described as a musical very much in the vein as John Carney’s films like Sing Street and Begin Again .
Surface comparisons can be made to other musical bonding movies, particularly the work of John Carney, helmer of Once and Begin Again .
Directed by Brett Haley ( The Hero , I'll See You In My Dreams ), it stands alongside the films of John Carney, like Once and Begin Again , in telling a soulful story filled with equally soulful music.
Si la película fuera un disco LP, se podría colocar en el mueble dentro de la misma categoría y estatus de otras obras musicales como Begin Again o Sing Street de John Carney, e incluso junto a la reciente Amor de vinilo escrita por Nick Hornby.
Everything from Look Back and The Fabelmans, to Singin’ in the Rain, The Hero, and Opening Night.
It’s a movie that takes at least some of its prompts from one of the best young romances of the ’70s, “Breaking Away.”
Starting very young Fanning has dabbled in everything from neo-surrealism in “The Neon Demon” to edgy period drama in Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” to Disney blockbuster action in “Maleficent.”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Directed by Stephen Chbosky
influenced All Together Now (2020)
Otherwise, it tries to bridge the gap between the funny and serious tones of the usual modern YA touchstones: The Fault in Our Stars , The Perks of Being a Wallflower , The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, etc. Oh, and All Together Now director Brett Haley also helmed Netflix teen weepie All the Bright Places .
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
influenced All the Bright Places (2020)
Themes
Though we do get a glimpse of those bustling high school classrooms, Netflix’s new original film All the Bright Places instead falls somewhere between The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl , at the rather more melancholy end of the genre.