Love you more
2008 · 15m · Reino Unido
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
A record shop is a good place to flirt. Georgia and Peter share a passion for the Buzzcocks and, after stealing their latest single, go back to the girl's house to listen to it.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A record-shop romance with the Buzzcocks as aphrodisiac—it's cute, it's got taste, but it's exactly the kind of consensus indie-darling move everyone expects from Taylor-Johnson. Where's the teeth?
Taylor-Johnson demonstrates precise control over the sensual-comedic register, staging flirtation with the formality of a music video; the Buzzcocks become both plot device and thematic anchor in a lineage of rock-scored romance that traces back through decades of carefully composed seduction scenes.
The genius is the theft itself—the single stolen moment that reframes the entire transaction from passive consumption to active complicity, making what could've been a generic meet-cute into an intimate pact, all turned on a decision to make the romance *criminal*.