Archie and Hannah meetat the bakery where she works. She is a baker, he is a comedian. Will they get together?
I don't have a great deal to say about this film - other than it surprised the hell out of me. What is this thing called a romantic comedy where we have real people? How did they not go for schtick? More simply put this is a beautifully written, wonderfully acted film where we care from the first frame to the last.
I am so flooded with requests to cover romances and I frequently turn them down. They are so by the book or jokey that I can walk out of the room ten minutes in and come back with ten minutes to go and still know everything that happens. I couldn't do that here... more importantly I did not want to do that here because I cared about the people on the screen. I wanted to see what happened in their lives and I wanted to see if they stayed together because it isn't clear what will happen until it does.
This is an absolute gem of a film. Its the reason I take swaths of films at a festival to see instead of picking and choosing, because it forces me to find this joyous little discoveries.
See this film- and then see it again- because its just as wonderful the second time (My seeing it twice is a rave ladies and gentlemen)
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