Solène Marchand is a 40-year-old art gallery owner and single mother whose former husband left her for a younger woman. Forced to accompany her daughter to the Coachella festival, an unmissable event for Hollywood celebrities, she finds herself by mistake in Hayes Campbell’s dressing room. The 24-year-old singer is a member of the boy band August Moon, which Solène’s daughter, like millions of fans, adores.
This meeting marks the beginning of a beautiful love story between the superstar and the gallery owner. But their romance, which makes the front pages of tabloids around the world, is put to the test by hateful comments and criticism about their age difference. Solène, unaccustomed to her private life being scrutinized, questions herself.
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Available from this Thursday, May 2, 2024 on the Amazon Prime Video platform, The idea of being with you is the film adaptation of a teenage dream: to be noticed by your favorite singer. It is the author Robinne Lee who brings it to life in the eponymous fanfiction (understand a fiction about One or more celebrities written by a fan), published in 2017.
A fanfiction inspired by the singer Harry Styles
After After adapted from a novel written by Anna Todd, The idea of being with you is the second fanfiction whose main character is inspired by the singer Harry Styles, former member of the British boy band One Direction. To play him on the small screen, Prime Video called on Nicholas Galitzine, seen in My Dear F***ing Prince, another Amazon adaptation of a fanfiction. Opposite him, Anne Hathaway embodies a confident and free forty-something, opposed to a society which constantly sends her back to her age and her status as a divorced mother.
Besides the clichés specific to the fanfiction genre (obviously, fan-authors are not very subjective), The idea of being with you is a light and down-to-earth romantic comedy, pleasant to watch, which addresses femininity, age and sexuality without taboos.
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But the real success of this film is to have succeeded in importing fiction into our reality, by imagining a boy band which, on screen, holds its own and which has already caught the eye of Internet users After the publication of the trailer on social networks. Three August Moon titles are already available on streaming platforms: Taste, Dance Before We Walk And Closer.
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