Film
Juliet, Naked
- Director
- Jesse Peretz
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 98 mins
Former Lemonheads bassist Jesse Peretz directs an adaptation of Nick Hornby‘s thematic companion piece to High Fidelity, which once again explores geeky, obsessive male music fandom.
It’s a somewhat bizarre love triangle yarn centred on Annie (Rose Byrne), the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) – a college lecturer and authentically sad, self-important lifelong fanboy of forgotten, obscure American indie musician Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). After making online contact with the long-lost Crowe, who’s now something of a middle-aged loser and deadbeat dad, Annie begins an unlikely friendship. When the film was unveiled at (inevitably) Sundance, most critics praised the performances, but many found the warm-hearted story formulaic and cartoonishly two-dimensional (or “so very dumb”, as The Guardian put it). This is unlikely to deter the target audience.
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