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  Review by Vanina ★★★★ 4

  The upside to the endless attention Sam Taylor-Johnson is receiving because of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is the fact that this short is finally easy to find! I've been looking for this for a long time - in 2007 I was in the throes of a moderate-sized crush on Harry Treadaway after seeing him in 'Brothers of the Head', the terribly-named-but-very-enjoyable 'Cape Wrath' and 'Control' all in the timespan of two weeks. I saw this was announced at that time and it sounded fantastic: two teenagers fall in love after they both want to buy the new Buzzcocks single 'Love You More'.

  It's a very sweet look at teenage love/lust, and the tie-in with the Buzzcocks in enjoyable for everyone…

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  Review by Graham Williamson ★★★★ 2

  Hat tip to Vanina's review for letting me know this was available online now.

  Am I becoming a Sam Taylor-Johnson auteurist? She seems to me to be the closest modern thing to the "termite artists" Manny Farber observed working in classic Hollywood; someone who, without making a big fuss about it, burrows into a saleable genre and reshapes it into something of their own. She has yet to merge her minimal, female-gaze-centred gallery work with her narrative fiction, but I'm increasingly coming to think that's the point. None of her films have been about any character who seems to correspond to her life, and all of them feel personal.

  I haven't seen Fifty Shades of Grey yet, so the closest…

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  Review by loureviews ★★★½ 3

  This was so sweet, cute, fluffy and utterly teenage, and it made me think of those days I hibernated in my bedroom, listening to tapes (although it was Iron Maiden and Motley Crue for me, not The Buzzcocks), while nursing a variety of mushy and unsuitable crushes on boys real and imaginary.

  Harry Treadaway and Andrea Riseborough are the kids who find love in this well-written and acted short from Sam Taylor-Johnson (formerly Taylor-Wood), who has branched out into more questionable fare in recent times with 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.

  This, though, I really liked.

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  Review by KYK

  oh GOD if i had seen this in 2008.......i would've been hung up on this fantasy for sure

  i love that it ends with the promise of listening to the B-side in the future... "noise annoys" is a better track, too :)

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  Review by nina

  maybe the worst possible outcome of my dad picking a random short to watch on the criterion channel tonight

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  Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★ 4

  God, Andrea Riseborough looks just like a (late) teenage ex of mine in this!

  Inspired to watch by both Graham Williamson's review and Vanina's review (two L'boxers I hold in the highest regard - read their reviews, they're better than this one!) this Sam Taylor-Johnson (nee Wood) short from a Patrick 'Cornish Curmudgeon' Marber script is a beautifully bittersweet, tender and sexy look at two teenagers coming together over their mutual appreciation of the Manchester band Buzzcocks in the summer of 1978.

  The sense of excitement and anticipation, of euphoria and timid uncertainty and ultimately the enthusiastic naivety that comes with the stirrings of first love is gloriously captured by Taylor-Johnson, most notably in the scene in which the two…

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  Review by Daniel Imrem ★★½

  See, this right here is why I can't quite relate to these romantic comedy things:

  If I were in a record store and managed to grab the sole copy of an incredibly rare release, only to then watch as a girl I was interested in entered the store in search of the exact same album... I wouldn't use it as an opportunity to hit on her.

  I'd probably just fast-walk my tiny little legs over to the cashier's counter and buy it before she ever realized that I snagged the last one.

  I'm sorry. I like music and I'm an idiot

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  Review by xoxo ★★★

  Pretty high key wholesome

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  Review by avery

  11/10 for wholesome youth
  however big mistake to watch if experiencing unrequited feelings lolol

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  Review by quietprofanity ★★★★½

  Seen as part of 52 Films by Women.

  [watches a young Andrea Riseborough and Harry Treadaway spit beer on each other and kiss]

  Me: “Lol, is this how Sam Taylor got the 50 Shades gig?”

  [scene continues]

  Me: “ … I’ll take that as a yes.”

  Honestly, this was pretty hot and cute, if far from transcendent.

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  Review by Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸 ★★★★

  RIP Pete Shelley. Thanks for the music

  Previous review here

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  Review by Ryan ★★★★½

  I miss being a teenager sometimes