Opening: GOD HELP THE GIRL, God Help This Movie

Who could possibly say "no" to those beguiling faces, three lovely and charming people who want you to see their new movie God Help the Girl when it opens in limited release on Friday, September 5?

Stuart Murdoch, better known as the front-man for Belle & Sebastian -- I own multiple albums! I like them! -- makes his directorial debut; the movie stars Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, and Hannah Murray. How did things turn out? Our own Kwenton Bellette saw the film at the Melbourne International Film Festival last month and filed his review:

The film is stung by lashes of awkward editing, a sloppy screenplay, and a cloying suffocation of artificial, twee characters.

Our 'girl' in this modern day tale is Eve (Emily Browning), a patient with mental health issues who takes off on literal flights of fancy. The mundane surroundings of Glasgow become a hipster's paradise of garish fashion and culture altogether consumed by Eve's music-video montage imagination. In her medicated melancholy, she befriends a musician named James (Olly Alexander) and his semi-pupil Cassie (Hannah Murray). Poor James is forever friend-zoned by Eve, and Cassie is the equivalent of a ditzy Barbie doll, lacking most signs of humanity and merely existing as an on-the-spot friend.

Ouch, as we say in America.

Kwenton's review concludes that the film is "a sickening concoction of twee hopelessness, interspersed with catchy tunes. It has no idea; god help the film."

Hmm, that doesn't sound good, does it? I better go lay down and put on a Belle & Sebastian album to deal with my mild depression. If you, however, are feeling bold, by all means, don't let us discourage you from deciding for yourself.

The film opens, via Amplify Releasing, in select theaters and will also be available via various Video On Demand providers. Visit the official U.S. site for more information.

Kwenton Bellette contributed to this story.