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Review: The Break-Up
Filed under: Comedy », Romance », New Releases », Universal », Theatrical Reviews »
It's a pity that The Break-Up is being sold mostly on the are-they-or-aren't-they media furor around stars Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. The press around the film is trading heavily on Aniston's public perception as America's Sweetheart (with a top-seated, very public placement in the "Brokenhearted" division) and Vaughn's nifty, tabloid-ready story arc as the good-but-bad-boy who can help her live again. It's not just that this perception is coated in the thin, cold sheen of the clammy, whispered air of schoolyard gossip; it's also that it does disservice to a nicely-made, nicely executed romantic comedy with a strong script and great supporting cast. The Break-Up isn't going to go into the pantheon of romantic comedies alongside The Apartment or Annie Hall, but it deserves -- and earns the right -- to be seen as something, anything other than just more grist for the dark satanic mills of the gossip-industrial complex.
Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) meet cute within the first five minutes of The Break-Up; we spend the rest of the film watching them un-meet cute, squabbling and sharing as they both insist on occupying the same condo. Some will suggest that The Break-Up lacks realism; to this I can only say "Good." I do not wish to go into a theater in the summer and watch the reality of a relationship ending any more than I would want to go into a theater in the summer and watch the reality of a cruise ship turning upside down or the reality of South Seas piracy. Yes, The Break-Up is fake; but The Break-Up is funny, and it also has a surprisingly sincere heart.
Sundance Kick Off Press Conference
Filed under: Independent », Sundance », Festival Reports », Cinematical Indie »
I couldn't get a steady wifi connection at this afternoon's Sundance Opening Press Conference at the Kimball Art Center, so here's my "live blog" ... an hour after the fact:
Geoffrey Gilmore (fesitval co-director and programmer), Nicole Hofcener (director of opening night film, Friends with Money) and Robert Redford (duh) take the stage. Geoff starts, and right away the agenda seems to be about proving that Sundance still has cred:
"It's a pleasure to have an opening night press conference, we haven't in the past. Fest in the 20th year, Institute in its 25th. People don't understand the merging of the institute and the festival. Truth is, it's really hard to talk abou the festival when you haven't seen the films yet...I can tell you that I think the fest is as independent as a festival we've done in years, but you'll be the judge of that."
He lists the numbers on this year's program:
120 features
84 world premires
48 first time featuremakers
102 films to be presented on digital projection (!)
(Only 41 shot on digital formats)
46 docs
35 features by women - speaks to our diverstiy, speaks to what this festival is about
if the number of films being made in this country is any indication of the level of interest in independent cinema ... look at the diversity of the range of films that are at this festival.
Geoff wants to ask two things of the press: that we try not to talk about the films by reducing them to summary points, and that we hold your judgements about what the festival is, until we get through the festival, and that we try to see work we wouldnt ordinarily get a chance to see (obviously, that's three. Wonder which one he made up on the spot?)
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