{"id":8541,"date":"2020-10-06T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8541"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:56:55","slug":"review-the-broken-hearts-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8541","title":{"rendered":"Review: THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heartening Stuff!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Do you know an emotional hoarder? I\u2019ve certainly known a few emotional vampires in my time, but a \u201choarder?\u201d The phrase is a new one on me, but the gleeful \u201cThe Broken Hearts Gallery\u201d has introduced it into my lexicon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When 20-something Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan from 2018\u2019s \u201cBlockers”) goes through a painful breakup, she adds another memento to her growing collection. These otherwise worthless souvenirs remind her of past loves, but the effect is to stunt her forward progress. Lucy is permanently stuck, incapable of moving on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy\u2019s supportive roommates, Amanda (\u201cBooksmart\u2019s\u201d Molly Gordon) and Nadine (\u201cHamilton\u2019s\u201d Phillipa Soo), immediately go into crisis management mode. Like everything in this highly stylized fantasy, the two world-weary, but chipper gals have ready-made props meant to comfort Lucy. I noticed that one of the items they give her is a DVD copy of \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\u201d which is one of the most romantic films I\u2019ve ever watched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While \u201cBroken Hearts\u201d doesn\u2019t rise to \u201cSpotless Mind\u201d levels, it\u2019s fully aware of its place in the romantic comedy genre. And, in addition to the quirky comic relief of Lucy\u2019s roommates, all the familiar and essential ingredients are there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy works at an art gallery run by a shrewd and vampish Eva Woolf (the lovely Bernadette Peters). After a public meltdown related to her romantic troubles, Lucy finds herself out of a job. By chance, she encounters Nick (\u201cStranger Things\u2019\u201d Dacre Montgomery), who is in the finishing stages of build-out on a boutique hotel.

Read the rest of Jonathan’s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/09\/the-broken-hearts-gallery-heartening-stuff<\/a>

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Selena Gomez produces charming romantic comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}