Camila Cabello is one of the great female pop icons of the 20th century. She rose to fame as a singer/actor/writer in the early 1960s and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the same category as Marilyn Monroe. Much of her success stemmed from the anti-heroine role she was given in films such as Camelot and Come Back Tonight. It seems that age is no barrier for women when it comes to appealing to men, as Camila Cabello makes an excellent role in the new movie, The Singles Club.
The movie starts out in 1963 and centers on the lives of young lovers, Camila (Jennifer Aniston) and Richie (John Turturro), who hit the slopes after a snowstorm passes through Colorado. On the first day of their snowboarding escapade, they manage to destroy a chairlift. Their luck continues to improve as they witness an accident between two automobiles, which ends in the death of a woman. Her husband, Dean (Philip Seymour Hoffman) decides to involve his own group of high school boys in the investigation, hoping to solve the mystery of the accident.
The next morning, the team goes to the site where the accident took place and finds several skiers and snowboarders. One of the boys, Kurt (Tyler Denny), is immediately drawn to the attractive, curvaceous model in the office, interns Jane (Emma Stone) and Richie (Jason Lee). They spend the entire day hanging out with the team, going over various incidents. Meanwhile, Dean approaches Camila for a date, but she politely refuses. He continues to pursue her, and soon he learns that she has been seeing someone else.
As the relationship between the main characters develops, it becomes clear that the attraction between them isn’t based on looks or even a desire for romance. Instead, it is caused by the shared interests they have. ‘Cabello’ keeps the romance developing, until the very end. This film also showcases some of Cabello’s acting skills, as he takes the part of the curious onlooker who never questions what is really going on.
Like most movies about fashion, ‘Cabello’ provides the usual formula for its characters: smart, sexy, self-confident, and rich. The beauty of this formula is that all of these characteristics could be considered attributes of a good model, except for the accent. In most films, the model is supposed to be just good-looking, which makes the character more interesting. However, Cabello is so much more interesting because he isn’t good-looking.
In terms of acting, Ruben Studdard, who plays the lead role, is perfectly fine. However, Brett Favre, who plays Dean, is not as convincing as he should be, and the movie ends up feeling like a case study on the pitfalls of acting. In one scene, Favre almost sells himself to the crowd, saying how handsome he is and then taking off his shirt to prove it. It is here that the character is so well drawn that it is hard to take him seriously. In another scene, Favre gets into a fight with an Italian mobster and is nearly killed, but thankfully gets himself hurt.
Despite the bad acting, the movie does have some beautiful sights to see. It is set in the late eighties in a city where fashion already has taken over the traditional elements of life, and Cabello is a major character whose fashion sense has a direct effect on the lives of others. The music score is an absolute highlight of the movie, as it uses the right moods to compliment the scenes and moments perfectly. Even if the acting isn’t that great, the music works in concert with the right performances to make a movie a truly unforgettable experience.
Overall, it is easy to see why Camila Cabello is such a huge hit. Her unique style manages to combine modern-day sophistication with old-world mystery, making it one of those rare films from the seventies that manages to be both timeless and contemporary at the same time. Although the movie is not perfect, the level of quality work she puts forth makes it one of her better movies. It is worth a watch and one that is sure to get plenty of attention from both fans and critics. It doesn’t get much better than this.
