“Rachel Getting Married” doesn’t premiere in North American until this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, but our pal Julien from Allocine.com is currently at the Venice Film Festival seeing many a fall film before the rest of us. He just got out of Jonathan Demme’s ‘Rachel,’ starring Anne Hathaway as a rehab, ex-drug addict who can’t get her shit together, and he tells us he wasn’t all that impressed.
We already know that TV On The Radio’s lead singer Tunde Adebimpe appears in the film as Sidney, Hathaway’s sister’s fiance, but we didn’t know he sang in the film, right? Well, given that he does have some pipes it stands to figure the filmmakers might put them to use. And Demme loves himself some Neil Young, having directed the music performance documentary, “Neil Young: Heart of Gold,” right?
Well, Adebimpe does an acapella version of Young’s “Unknown Legend” during the wedding party sequence in the movie singing to his bride (though our dude says there might be a bit of guitar in the bg). Our tipster calls it “the only scene that feels really authentic in the film.” We’re not completely surprised as we have very little interestin this film, we’re not seeing it at TIFF and it’s not really on our radar. Hathaway can swing her pendulous breasts all she wants to be taken seriously, she’s just generally not that good an actress. “Rachel Getting Married” boasts an original score by Zafer Tawil and Donald Harrison, Jr., the latter of which plays himself in the film, presumably as one of the members in the wedding band.
Watch: Neil Young, “Unknown Legend.”