In the same way, Becky Something is all self-destructive bones. On the docket this week is David Cronenberg’s devilishly creepy “Videodrome” (Tuesday, Brattle) pairing high punk princess Debbie Harry and James Woods (before he went to the absurd extreme right) to follow the 1983 underground of early cable TV into the surreal and lurid. The battles begin when the singer and her Something She bandmates— Marielle (Agyness Deyn, superb) and Ali (Gayle Rankin) — rock the house at a club called Her Smell, then head to the dressing room to have Becky bite their heads off. Look also for David Lynch’s perverse “Blue Velvet” (1986), DeLorean- propelled comedy classic “Back to the Future” (1985), Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley back at it in “Aliens” (1986) and Paul Verhoeven’s uber-violent satire, “Robocop (1987). While this feels like cheat for a film refreshingly centered on an unlikable female antihero—a desperately needed breed of character in cinema—you somehow excuse it, as Moss boldly makes the stench of “Her Smell” her own.

Thanks to Ya-ema’s misguiding, Becky is led to believe a false prophecy: her own child will be her downfall. “Becky Something, she’s a woman,” Agyness Deyn’s character, Marielle, tells her. But none of that quite puts us inside of her mind.

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We want to hear from you! “Her Smell,” Alex Ross Perry’s relentless new film, poses the problem in a different register, and not only because the difficult artist in question is a woman. She subsequently throws a fit backstage trying to get her infant to vacate the premises, all while her ex-husband (Dan Stevens) and his new girlfriend bend helplessly to her chaos. In the film’s first performance from Something She, Becky’s band plays a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl, Another Planet.” The first line?

And yet, she is given chance after chance after chance. “I’ve done some really difficult things, challenging roles and challenging scenes,” Moss, who also stars in The Handmaid’s Tale and portrayed Peggy Olsen on Mad Men, said of her role in the picture to The Hollywood Reporter last year.

And this is entirely thanks to Moss, who, in her third collaboration with Perry, sinks her claws into the film with peerless dedication and turns it into something halfway rewarding. You can if it’s this one. Her blonde hair and the tone of the song, a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl Another Planet,” recall Hole and Courtney Love. Her blonde hair and the tone of the song, a cover of the Only Ones’ “Another Girl Another Planet,” recall Hole and Courtney Love. Boston, Davis Square, entertainment, environment, Film, Harvard Square, Harvard University, slider, added by Tom Meek on Sunday, November 3, 2019 Her Smell is a 2018 American drama film written, co-produced and directed by Alex Ross Perry.It stars Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Agyness Deyn, Gayle Rankin, Ashley Benson, Dylan Gelula, Virginia Madsen and Amber Heard and follows Moss as fictional rock star Becky Something, whose band experiences brief fame but is broken up by her self-destructive behavior. With “Her Smell,” Perry gives Moss a boundless playground to stretch those twin muscles to unnerving effect, eventually allowing her character both a quiet segment of reconciliation (the film’s strongest part) and a comeback concert of sorts in the finale (a hazy afterthought).

At the end, I was incredibly fulfilled and happy that I’d done the role.

“I always flirt with death.” Becky whispers it twice before fully kicking into the song. It’s not hard to imagine music journalists in the world of Alex Ross Perry’s new rock’n’roll drama, Her Smell, breathlessly reporting on the antics of Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) as writers did during Courtney Love’s chaotic reign. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Something rejoins, “She’s a user.” “You’re a mother. By that point Becky is sober but still temperamental, and the last scene isn’t exempt from the thrumming anxiety that runs through the film. Ad Choices, Elisabeth Moss Is Essentially Courtney Love in the Rock’n’Roll Drama Her Smell, A daily roundup of the most important stories in music, Courtney Barnett, Alice Bag, Kathleen Hanna, More Appear on New, Watch Noname Freestyle Over Jay Electronica’s “Rough Love”, Chromeo Remix Dirty Projectors’ “Lose Your Love”: Listen, Deerhoof Surprise-Release New Covers Album, Ella Mai Returns With New Song “Not Another Love Song”: Listen, Lana Del Rey Shares New Song “Let Me Love You Like a Woman”: Listen, D.C.’s U Street Music Hall Closing Due to COVID-19, Palberta Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “Before I Got Here”: Watch. Want more Rolling Stone? The film, which will premiere in New York on April 12th and in Los Angeles on April 19th, with a wider release to follow, chronicles the band’s decline as Something’s demons get out of hand. Sign up for our newsletter. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.

Login. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. Love obviously can’t relate. If Becky’s journey doesn’t quite form a credible arc, you can’t really blame it on Moss.

Also on Saturday for family viewing, “E.T. Becky’s journey toward responsible motherhood is rewarding, but there’s not enough about what actually made her a great rock star, let alone a songwriter.