Although it's a remake, it feels very dated

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2019)

The positives:
Good to see a movie about music where the actors look like they're actually playing their instruments.
The negatives:
The central characters, and therefore the whole movie that centres around them, are both pretty boring.
He's a tedious drunk, she's a solid performer with virtually no back story of any interest at all. She bafflingly sticks by him through thick and thin, and when she does finally lose it at the end of this 2 hour plus bore fest, it's almost impossible to care, assuming you can still muster the effort to pay attention. I think he might have died - by this point concentration on the film was impossible and disengagement was total.
I guess making movies as long as this with so little depth was ok when the original was made, but now it just seems like it belongs in a different era - and not in a good way.