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Sep 19, 2018 · Copying its title from Blur’s second album, London-set romantic comedy drama Modern Life Is Rubbish features a protagonist right out of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity: the nerdy music-obsessed male who is indeed rubbish when it comes to relationships.
Apr 27, 2018 · Britpop is a musical genre I had neutral feelings toward before sitting through Modern Life Is Rubbish, a uselessly nostalgic movie named after Blur’s 1993 album. After it, I wondered whether I had been too generous.
- Daniel Jerome Gill
- Ian Hart
Apr 28, 2018 · Modern Life Is Rubbish is, as someone once wrote of this planet, “harmless”. Or perhaps “mostly harmless”. It starts with a simple conceit: a break-up played out to the soundtrack of romance gone awry.
Apr 26, 2018 · A preview of the film. Expanding on his 2009 short film of the same name, Daniel Jerome Gill directed this romantic drama, which is a hybrid of “High Fidelity” and “Two for the Road,” set in...
- Daniel Jerome Gill
- Glenn Kenny
- 105 min
Dec 22, 2017 · If Nick Hornby had considered structuring High Fidelity like 500 Days of Summer, the outcome might look something like the smart, music-centric British romantic comedy Modern Life Is Rubbish.
I thought that this was a perfect way to describe Liam himself, whose disdane for 'modern life' becomes repetitive and makes you want to bang your head against a wall. The main highlight of this film, for sure, has to be the the performance of Ian Hart.
Modern Life Is Rubbish: Directed by Daniel Jerome Gill. With Ian Hart, Freya Mavor, Sorcha Cusack, Jessie Cave. Boy meets girl in CD store. They like the same music. He's a guitarist in a band of 3 and she works in the City of London and is the breadwinner.
