Charli XCX: Alone Together

It feels like a very modern, fusional kind of digital fandom – not dissimilar to the intense feedback loop between followers and luminaries on show in this year’s anime hit Belle.

Through the creation of music, Charli brought light to the darkness of monotony and isolation, and fashioned a safe space bursting with love and creativity.

The vital, bouncy, fist-tight headrush of a 67-minute documentary that Bradley & Pablo cut together would be been a blast even if it didn’t amount to more than the portrait of an artist trying to make sense of a new creative climate.

A searingly honest and moving look at artistry during the pandemic.

Writer-director-star Katie Holmes perfectly captures those early pandemic days in the occasionally heartbreaking and mostly sweet and lovely romantic drama “Alone Together.”

...talky but thoughtful look at the early days of the pandemic