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Gallery of broken hearts11/22/2023 Krinsky drops in mockumentary-style interview segments with a variety of people explaining their own reasons for keeping souvenirs of their broken loves. Suki Waterhouse is Chloe, Nick’s past “entanglement” and namesake as it turns out for his hotel. Bernadette Peters turns up as the art gallery owner where Lucy works and has a few bits of advice to offer. Ambudkar is stuck with the third-wheel role common to rom-coms and does it efficiently. However, acting honors go to fellow Australian Montgomery (both leads sport nice American accents), who is a Zac Efron-type blissfully countering the more forceful performance from Viswanathan with an appealing charm and easygoing personality. The actress tries too hard to make us love her, especially in the first half, but eventually turns Lucy into a three-dimensional person you find yourself rooting for by the end. It lacks the edge of say an Amy Schumer vehicle like Trainwreck, though the sometimes-overachieving demeanor of Viswanathan reminded me of her. If The Broken Hearts Gallery accomplishes that then so be it. In an intro to the preview link of the film sent to critics, executive producer Selena Gomez makes the case for the film as bringing some love and laughs into a world that needs it now more than ever. It isn’t a question of if this working relationship dealing in trinkets from a lovelorn past leads to something more intimate between Lucy and Nick, but only a matter of when - and then it gets, well, complicated. This is the flimsy foundation on which Krinsky builds a near two-hour feature film that has all the hallmarks of the genre including the BFF’s for Lucy (Molly Gordon, Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo) and a sidekick for Nick (Arturo Castro). It doesn’t take a brain scientist to see where this might be leading, especially with clues that the low key and likeable Nick may have romantic entanglements of his own from which he needs to get, well, untangled. She is helped in this cause when she meets, oh-so-cute in typical rom-com fashion by mistaking him for her Uber ride, a small-hotel owner named Nick (Dacre Montgomery) who soon offers up his lounge space for the budding enterprise that the two collaborate on. Some say she is a hoarder surrounded by all these reminders of her former love lives, but she has an idea to actually turn them into something useful by creating an art gallery-like exhibit where other like-minded, heartbroken, single twentysomethings (and anyone else) can put their own relics of relationships gone wrong on display. The cast also includes Utkarsh Ambudkar, Molly Gordon, Phillipa Soo and Ego Nwodim.Australian actress Geraldine Viswanathan, so good in the recent HBO film Bad Education, leads a diverse cast and gets to sport her comedic chops as Lucy, an art gallery worker with a cozy sexual relationship with colleague Max (Utkarsh Ambudkar) that goes awry when his ex comes back into the picture and he is added to the long list of busted affairs she keeps close to memory by creating her own private gallery of trinkets and mementos. Geraldine Viswanathan (“Blockers,” “Bad Education”) stars in “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” a romantic comedy about a lovesick New Yorker who overcomes heartbreak by opening a museum dedicated to keepsakes from past relationships. Without the two biggest moviegoing markets in the country open, it will be difficult for most big movies turn a profit in theaters. 21 release date will hold since cinemas in Los Angeles and New York aren’t up and running yet. However, industry experts aren’t optimistic its Aug. Since it’s unclear when “Tenet” will be unveiled, “Mulan” is currently slated to be the first new tentpole to debut in theaters. But each time “Tenet” is delayed, it causes a domino effect for other films hoping to open. “Tenet” has been positioned as a salvation for theater owners, who have pegged their reopening plans to its late summer debut. Movie theaters have been closed for months - a devastating trend for exhibitors that could continue if coronavirus cases continue to spike across the country.
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