Can you imagine that your mother accompanies you to Primavera Sound, Mad Cool or Bilbao BBK Live and ends up falling in love with Alex Turner or the leader of a British band that was created in a talent television with a small budget? This is how it starts The idea of having youthe film directed by Michael Showalter, based on the novel of the same name by Robinne Lee and available on Prime Video, in which a 40-year-old woman begins a torrid romance with one of the members of a boy band Teen which is two albums away from hitting the charts.
Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine They star in a romantic film in which ageism (and disparate lifestyles) become a rocky mountain to climb to achieve a fairy tale ending. It’s a shame that Laura Escanes and Risto Mejide are no longer together, they would have loved the plot. Solene (Hathaway) is a divorced woman who was a young mother. She works in a art gallery in Los Angeles and, after a considerable failure in love, he begins to rethink his return to the dating world. The market is not as fresh as she remembered and, at 40 years old, she realizes that the options are scarce.
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After numerous disagreements with her ex-husband, she is forced to taking his daughter and her friends to Coachellathe most festival instagrammable of the planet. There she will perform August Moon, the band of five boys (a nod to the melismas and the chronology of One Direction) of which his daughter is a follower, but who has already passed away as a result of her exponential growth (that is, as an adult, she is ashamed to think that, at a given point in your coming-of-agecame to idolize a group that now generates some rejection). Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), from 24 years old, is one of the most beloved members of the group, a sort of Harry Styles of AliExpress who dazzles the groupies with his tattoos and his feline look.
While Solène waits for her daughter to arrive at a meet and greet to meet Campbell and the rest of the members of August Moon, she establishes a special connection with the young man. After the festival, the singer cannot get her out of his head and will do everything in his power to get a date with her. However, little by little they will realize that society, and the band’s fans, are not prepared to see an older woman dating a young man less than a quarter of a century old. The sensationalism of coated paper TMZ and Daily Mail It takes over your routines.
The idea of having you is a one-of-a-kind film: a fantasy mirage in which a woman falls in love with a yoghurt who plays the guitar. An exercise in shame of others with pretenses of being serious, but that errs in its need to be taken as a project that connects with the preciousness of the guilty pleasure. Hathaway and Galitzine exude chemistry, but His scenes want to be a kind of pretty woman without the innocent, dreamy and idealistic humor of this one.
He is very mature for his age, of course, and he does not at all have a series of attitudes that would define a young man who is on the crest of the wave and who has all the money in the world to do with it whatever he wants (something that is demonstrated when he buys all the works from Solène’s gallery in order to invite her to dinner). His romance is forbidden, exotic and reviled by a judgmental society, a cocktail that makes sex incredible and passion more than a mere singular procedure between the two.
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The idea of having you wants to be a protest film when things go wrong between the couple (Solène begins to be harassed by the press because of the age difference between them and her daughter is a victim of bullying at school for him cougarism of his mother), but he forgets the scenes of mystical blushing that give life to a romantic comedy. The blush, in this case, leads us to the most classic embarrassment at the disbelief of the script. Michael Showalter’s film plays with the codes of the social jargon of the last decade, but it forms a half-paced feature film that is overly mature and requires a greater degree of mamarracheo to breathe.
