I’m a huge fan of the romantic dramedy. Romantic comedies are all well and good, but the thing is that actual romance includes pain and confusion and a lot less slapstick than your average Sandra Bullock movie. The following is a teaser for the upcoming film, (500) Days of Summer starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in what a great many of film enthusiasts are dubbing, “the next favorite hipster romance movie.” Personally, I don’t think that label fits. The tagline says it best: This is not a love story. It’s a story about love. There’s also a full length trailer available that I’ll be posting later.
Synopsis: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t. This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be — It’s thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days “together” to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life.
Release Date: July 17th, 2009
{The song in the teaser is “Sweet Disposition” by the Temper Trap}
