{"id":13307,"date":"2019-12-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13307"},"modified":"2019-12-17T23:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T04:33:40","slug":"her-smell-2018-alex-ross-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13307","title":{"rendered":"Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elisabeth Moss plays Becky, a wreck of an alt-rock star in five real-time extended scenes. First, she and bassist Agyness Deyn<\/a> and drummer Gayle Rankin encore the final show of their tour with “Another Girl Another Planet” – a live show with suspiciously antiseptic studio sound. I did not expect them to go straight backstage into a voodoo ceremony with suddenly oppressive sound design, all rumbling and scratching, nor for Matthew Crawley to show up as Becky’s baby-daddy. Can’t say I recognized Amber Heard (The Ward<\/a><\/em>) as a pop star who offers them some opening dates, nor Eric Stoltz (The Fly II<\/em>) as their manager. Anyway, the point of this segment is that Becky is an utter mess, dangerous to herself and everyone around her.<\/p>\n

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They’ve been unproductive for months in a studio (engineered by Notes on an Appearance<\/a><\/em> star Keith Poulson) when a young band intrudes on their turf (Valerian<\/a><\/em> star Cara Delevingne, Xan from Kimmy Schmidt<\/em>, Ashley Benson of Spring Breakers<\/em>). Becky wants the new kids to play their song, and again, the music in this movie sounds too perfect, then the doomed grinding soundscape returns. I didn’t quite buy the performances and the mayhem in first part, but by second part it’s real, and I’m reminded that the opening paragraph of the Rachel Handler interview<\/a> that got me to watch this movie called it “excruciating.”<\/p>\n

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In the middle part, omg they are opening for the kids… well, they’re not, since Becky destroys everything and has a big public meltdown before they can play a set, focusing rage on her mom Virginia Madsen (whose fortieth birthday was 9\/11\/01)<\/p>\n

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Recovery alone in a Last Days<\/em>-reminiscent house, visited by her ex and their kid with Agyness. Becky still seems a bit crazy, but in a gentle way, and she’s off the drugs and drinking tea, so that’s something. She plays a Bryan Adams song for her daughter, then a good new song for Agyness, which I guess was written by Alicia Bognanno of Nashville band Bully.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the comeback show. It’s just a label celebration, probably an industry event at the same medium-sized club as section 3, co-performing with the kids and the pop star, and it goes off without a hitch despite everyone getting nervous when Becky makes a comment about “the very end” then goes missing for a spell.<\/p>\n

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“Exasperating” is another word for this movie – I mostly liked it, but the Vulture interview is better. Yes, Perry has made some cool movies, and the cinematography is by Sean Price Williams (Good Time<\/a><\/em>) and editing by Robert Greene (Bisbee ’17<\/a><\/em>) and they are superheroes, but mostly I want to hang out with the sound designer and whoever made the fake CD artwork over the closing credits.<\/p>\n

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Elisabeth Moss plays Becky, a wreck of an alt-rock star in five real-time extended scenes. First, she and bassist Agyness Deyn and drummer Gayle Rankin encore the final show of their tour with “Another Girl Another Planet” – a live show with suspiciously antiseptic studio sound. I did not expect them to go straight backstage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1689,1924,440],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alex-ross-perry","tag-elisabeth-moss","tag-rock-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13333,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions\/13333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}