God Help the Girl (2014)
Directed by Stuart Murdoch
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 band.
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James, the movie’s hero, wears his shirts buttoned to the top, tie or no, sports nerd glasses, and is surrounded by a nimbus of curly, ungroomed hair that makes him look like a younger, less-nourished version of either Gustav Mahler or Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters (he would likely appreciate either reference).
It lacks the wallop of Stuart Murdoch’s “God Help the Girl” and the reckless abandon of “We Are the Best!,” but the palpable sincerity of Carney’s personal vision allows his musical to spin a fresh melody from a mess of familiar beats.