Independents’ day: music, film, art and more celebrating singledom at Valentine’s

Because you don’t need to have another person around to know that you’re fantastic, our critics select the finest odes to flying solo

The highly entertaining New York fashionista romcom The Devil Wears Prada was something about which I was regrettably snooty when it first appeared. How wrong I was. It’s a gem, with great performances from Meryl Streep as the terrifying magazine editor; Stanley Tucci as her long-suffering art director; Emily Blunt as the icy couture fanatic; and Anne Hathaway as Andy, the guileless PA. But more than this, it is a great movie for singledom, perhaps the movie for singledom. Because the point is, despite dalliances with super-hot guys, Hathaway’s character winds up single and perfectly happy. Her relationship is with her career as a journalist, which is probably where the romantic energy has been all along. She has outgrown her boyfriend, the toxic schemer Nate, and she is happy with herself. This is singledom nirvana. Peter Bradshaw

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