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The Idea of You Is a Brutal Watch, Actually
Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine live life on the edge (of tears) in this movie.
Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine make a perfect pair in The Idea of You: They are attractive, likable actors; the former is a beloved titan of the industry and the latter is an undeniable up-and-comer; they share a musical-theater-quality earnestness that allows their screen presence to feel true and big all at once; and, most importantly, these are two of the most watery-eyed performers working today and they spend at least half this movie on the verge of crying. On its face, the film projects a shiny, absurd fantasy, in which a Harry Styles–esque fictional boy bander named Hayes Campbell (Galitzine) woos the 40-year-old divorced gallery owner Solène (Hathaway) after a chance encounter at Coachella. It’s this kind of weepy vérité that kills the fantasy aspect of The Idea of You, a movie that, for me, called to mind the scene in the season-one finale of Girls when Jessa yells “Your dreams are not what you thought they’d be!” into a crowd of people at her wedding.
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