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Paper Heart
Paper Heart is a charming if sometimes odd little film. At the onset it’s a documentary about one’s belief in the concept and power of love and then it morphs into a romantic comedy. The rom-com element of the film is strangely compelling while being a complete work of fiction.
Real life comedian Charlyne Yi sets out to examine a concept she doesn’t fully understand, love, in a series of interviews that take place across the United States. Both the interviews and interviewees provide the film’s true heart and soul and are very engaging. Featuring moments in front and behind the camera, we get to know Charlyne and the film’s director Nicholas Jasenovec played by actor Jake Johnson. Jake plays the director as a sort of big brother and both coddles and pushes Charlyne along on her quest.
In the course of the film’s behind the scenes activity, Charlyn meets actor Michael Cera at a party and the two develop a romantic interest in each other. This is played out as a true romance but in reality is a complete work of fiction. Both actors on-screen are shy and reserved and their budding romance has quite a few believable moments and a certain charm missing in most romantic comedies.
Ultimately their romance runs its course and Charlyn comes out the other end still not believing in love, this result invalidates some of the film’s supposed intentions but in an peculiar way yanks the film back to reality. A reality where dream romances exist more in the imagination than in the real world. This mix of the real and the imagined might not be for everybody but a lot of its charms are quite effective.
Rob Hudson
www.paperheart-movie.com
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