Charli XCX: Alone Together (Blu-ray Review)
Director
Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-SolerRelease Date(s)
2021 (May 5, 2026)Studio(s)
Cottage/Dangerous Baby Productions/Snoot Entertainment (Greenwich Entertainment/Kino Lorber)- Film/Program Grade: A
- Video Grade: A
- Audio Grade: A
- Extras Grade: F
Review
Released to Blu-ray right at that balanced moment between “too soon” and “over it”, watching the sixty-seven minute COVID era documentary Charli XCX: Alone Together hits in all sorts of ways. Set at the time when her 2019 tour came to a screeching halt (along with the rest of the world), Alone Together focuses on Charli’s realization that she wouldn’t be leaving quarantine in her Los Angeles home any time soon. Trapped with her boyfriend Huck (prior to this moment, they had never spent more than eleven days (or two weeks) together at one time) and two members of her management team, she finds solace online with her fans (Charli’s Angels as they call themselves, or Angels for short). Realizing she is only at peace when she’s being creative, with no end to the pandemic in sight, she decides to just produce an album on her own (her fourth studio album, How I’m Feeling Now). She farms in beats from producers she likes working with, fills her living room with recording equipment and pulls her Angels together on her forum for creative support, camaraderie and inspiration. The documentary equally focuses on the Angels, their lives, and why they look to her as much as it focuses on her creative process, relationships and her mental state during this period.
Alone Together is an unaggressive look at life during quarantine and serves less as a reminder of those terrible times and more of an inspiration that wherever you go, wherever you are, so too is your creativity. That and, you’re only as alone as you let yourself be these days. So many like-minded folks are out there. Yeah, there’s horrible, dark things out there on the internet too, but Charli XCX isn’t one of them, and thank the lord, the world needs more Brat.
This Blu-ray is a simple presentation. If you’re a fan you’ll want it. If you’re not, well... Video is 1.78:1 in English 2.0 Stereo and English subs. No extras. And that’s that. Boom Clap.
- Todd Doogan