The Broken Hearts Gallery

What if you saved a souvenir from every relationship you've ever been in?

Movies Comedy Romance
109 min     7.2     2020     USA

Overview

Lucy Gulliver (Geraldine Viswanathan) has a hard time forgetting her past relationships. She leaves various souvenirs as a keepsake. One day, she accidentally meets Nick (Dacre Montgomery). He helps her deal with the past and organize the Broken Hearts Gallery. In this open space, anyone can leave items related to their failed relationships.

The Broken Hearts Gallery looks like a very successful way to bring romantic comedy to life while showing the millennial generation's joys, fears, and illusions. The director managed to create a genre movie with intrigue and an original concept about overcoming breakups.

The main character has all kinds of clichés about a girl who builds her relationship through office romances and at the same time shines with creativity, instinctively finding fresh ideas that can surprise even the most notorious skeptics.

Krinsky fills the classic story about love and the development of relationships with self-irony and naive sincerity, which add doubts and real rom-com miracles to the narrative. It is important for the director to tell the on-screen story about how important it is to leave the cave of memories behind, re-discover the miracles of life, and stop collecting numerous artifacts about previous relationships.

Krinsky turns out to be realistic and inventive in many details, which make not only the wonderful comedic character of Viswanathan vibrant, but also the supporting characters. Therefore, The Broken Hearts Gallery is good even without languid sexuality, promoting ideas that an absolutely platonic relationship can gradually lead to the expected climax and long kisses in the finale.

A beautifully written script shows that romance is still alive in a cruel modern world and that feelings cannot be collected and placed on shelves.

Reviews

SWITCH. wrote:
'The Broken Hearts Galley' is the rom-com of the year. It succeeds on every level, thanks to its colour-blind approach to characters and some hilarious and heartfelt writing. Grab your partner, your friends - whoever you can - and enjoy this much-need film. - Chris dos Santos Read Chris' full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-the-broken-hearts-gallery-theres-an-art-to-a-good-rom-com-and-this-is-one-of-them

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