The film offers a refreshing oasis in a desert of dried-up romantic fantasies.
two strangers strike up a flirtation at a wedding and find themselves stuck together in a time loop. It’s far from the first love story to employ a healthy dose of fantasy to explore the mysteries of the heart. But this brain-tickling comedy, premiering July 10 on Hulu, is norehash. Instead, everyone involved in the movie seems to have taken a moment to consider what audiences really want out of a romantic comedy in 2020.
A glowing portal near Nyles and Sarah's first make-out session serves as the uncomplicated plot mechanism that sends this pair of pessimists into an endless repetition of the wedding day. While these two are no obvious match at first, Samberg and Milioti offer sneaky performances that allow their characters’ hard exteriors to gradually melt away like wedding ice sculptures under a blazing sun.
cohabitation over marriage—do not buy into the dream of a fairy-tale wedding as the stepping stone to romantic fulfillment. Instead, millennials are essentially giving themselves the exact kind of escape hatch that Sarah and Nyles are deprived of.So, what does a rom-com for a romantically-skeptical generation look like?tries to answer that, sometimes with self-aware dialogue like Sarah’s declaration to Nyles that she can “survive just fine without you, you know.
It’s the flip side of romantic entanglement that too many films tip-toe around in an effort to pull at our heart-strings with bold professions of love. This movie has those too, but like the eponymous setting,
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