Last year’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:May December explored the ramifications of a scandalous age-gap relationship in juicily melodramatic fashion. In The Idea of You, director Michael Showalter (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Big Sick) gives us the rom-com version: a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Notting Hill in reverse (Hill Notting?) in which a 40-year-old gallery owner embarks on a clandestine romance with a 24-year-old boy-band heartthrob who has until only recently adorned 𒁃the walls of her teenage daughter’s bedroom.

“I’m too old for you!” sighs gallery owner Solène (Anne Hathaway) to Harry Styles-alike Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine, Red White & Royal Blue, 2022’s Cinderella) after a day of flogging him art ends with them kissing in her kitchen. Hayes, though, has been smitten ever since she stumbled into his trailer at Coachella looking for a restroom: a rather flimsy meet-cute that ﷽sets the tone for everything that follows in this glossy but shallow adaptation of Robinne Lee’s 2017 beach-read bestseller.

With daughter Izzy (Ella Rubin) away at summer camp, Solène is initially thrilled to tag along on tour as Hayes’ plus-one, even if it does mean sharing a꧒ spot ♍by the pool with his August Moon bandmates’ far younger partners. Until, that is, the tabloids get wind of their fling and start painting her as a cradle-snatching cougar or ‘Yoko 2.0’. 

“Promise me♑ you’ll revisit this in five years!” pleads Galitzine at one crucial turning point. But such is the in-built disposability of this sort of lightweight 🌺streaming fodder that those who watch it will probably have forgotten it inside of five minutes. 

The Idea of You streams on Prime Video from May 2. 🥃;