Tonight You're Mine

Filmmaker David Mackenzie's low-budget quasi-documentary presents a fictional scenario set within an actual music festival. American musician Adam (Luke Treadaway) meets Brit rocker Morello (Natalia Tena) at Scotland's “T in the Park,” where they clash from the start, encouraging—somewhat implausibly—a golf-cart driving preacher to handcuff the pair together (while saying it will do them good) and then take off. Adam's model girlfriend, Lake (Ruta Gedmintas), finds this weird development irritating, while Morello's banker boyfriend, Mark (the director's brother, Alistair), takes it in stride. While the duo search for a solution, Mackenzie serves up snapshots of the onstage activity (but rarely identifies the artists). With no help in sight, Morello performs with Adam by her side, and he hijacks her set to sing Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" (his group performs the next day). Afterward, his band mate, Tyko (Mathew Baynton), secures a key, but Adam is having too much fun to tell Morello, so the two couples share the same bed, but Lake and Mark end up stomping out in frustration, opening the door for new romance to bloom. Unfortunately, Tonight Your Mine feels slight, although it's still more enjoyable than Nine Songs, Michael Winterbottom's turgid, if precedent-setting attempt to combine fictional characters with real musical performances. A strong optional purchase. (K. Fennessy)