Emily Browning Looks Very Belle And Sebastian-y In These First Pics From God Help The Girl
Stuart Murdoch's long-proposed feature film is actually a real thing that's really been made.
Some of you may remember a year or so ago when Stuart Murdoch, frontman of Scottish indie-pop legends Belle and Sebastian, launched a Kickstarter campaign to help secure some funding for a movie he wanted to make based around the tunes on the group’s last tangential musical release, God Help The Girl. Well, it turns out he wasn’t just funneling your kind donations into an ever-expanding stripy-shirt collection… The movie’s really been made and now there’s photographic proof!
The project, previously described as “a musical feature film about a long lazy summer in Glasgow”, stars Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray and our very own Emily Browning as a gang of three young friends and fledgling musicians who wear cute berets and fluffy cardigans, drink cafe au lait, listen to Velvet Underground records, and quote Camus and Oscar Wilde endlessly (well, we imagine). In more concrete news from the folks at Indiewire, Murdoch’s indicated that the film is reportedly inspired by “the French New Wave, the early post-punk movement, and the films of John Hughes”, so, you know, YES PLEASE.
According to a recent Facebook callout requesting the vocal talents of people “40+ and definitely with a Scottish accent”, it seems the film’s currently in its final mixing stage, so here’s hoping we’ll get a proper glimpse soon. In the meantime, let us remember.