Laurel Canyon

Aroview: Dropping in on the LA music scene, the writer-director of HIGH ART returns to her pet theme of conservatism yielding to a bohemianism, but here, in groupie-like fashion, seems seduced by the trappings of ‘cool’ without being able to find a genuine connection.

An uptight Christian Bale and his bookish fiancé (Beckinsale) are pushed further apart while residing at the luxury pad of his mother, a free-spirited record producer who’s having a fling with a boy-in-the-band. Frances McDormand eats up this role as the film’s most engaging character, but the script lacks the crucial detail to support any of its name cast.

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