Romantic Comedies
We’ve always got time for a romcom escape on OVID — so long as they’re not too dumbed down for our sharp intellect. From Monia Chokri’s NATURE OF LOVE, about a philosophy professor engaged in a love affair; to PARTING GLANCES, a pioneering film of gay cinema co-starring Steve Buscemi; to the Dominican comedy A FILM ABOUT COUPLES by Oriol Estrada, Natalia Cabral about making a documentary on coupledom; to Romanian filmmaker Paul Negoescu’s charmingly funny exploration of middle-aged male arrested development in THE STORY OF A SUMMER LOVER, there’s something for every kind of love relationship in here.
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A Film About Couples
Directed by Oriol Estrada, Natalia Cabral • Drama • With Oriol Estrada, Natalia Cabral, Lia Estrada Cabral, Carlos M. Matos, Homer Mora • 2021 • 89 minutes
Directed by Miriam Lies’ award-winning team, Natalia Cabral y Oriol Estrada, A Film About Couples is equal parts a candid exposition of the ...
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The Big Bad Swim
Directed by Ishai Setton • Drama • With Paget Brewster, Jeff Branson, Jess Weixler • 2007 • 96 minutes
Amy Malone (Paget Brewster) is a middle-aged calculus teacher going through a divorce. Her soon to be ex-husband, Paul, is a fellow co-worker at Old Lyme High School and under the current situa...
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Shall We Kiss?
Directed by Emmanuel Mouret • Drama • With Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet • 2009 • 102 minutes
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel’s...
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Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda • Drama • With Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao • 2009 • 116 minutes
A present-day fable for the increasing disconnect we find in urban life, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll transports the Galatea myth to present day Tokyo.
A life-size sex doll (Bae Doona, The Host)...
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The Queen of Hearts
Directed by Valérie Donzelli • Drama • With Valerie Donzelli, Jeremie Elkalim • 2009 • 88 minutes
Thirty-something Adele is devastated following a painful breakup. With no close friends or family, her distant cousin, Rachel, reluctantly takes her in and graciously attempts to salvage Adele’s pro...
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Will You Marry Us?
Directed by Micha Lewinsky • Drama • With Marie Leuenberger, Dominique Jann • 2009 • 90 minutes
Rahel Hubli is employed as a civil registrar. She hasn’t believed in the so-called “love of her life” in ages. But when a childhood friend, Ben, suddenly turns up, Rahel recalls again what it felt lik...
