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Kurt Loder Reviews 'Paper Heart'... |
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Kurt Loder Reviews 'Paper Heart'
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Film/Movie
Posted 4 months ago by
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 FROM mtv.com: I walked into "Paper Heart" knowing nothing about it and walked out feeling both charmed and conflicted. The picture is presented as a low-budget documentary about a low-budget documentary being made by Charlyne Yi (the cute stoned girlfriend in "Knocked Up"). The subject is love: Yi doesn't believe in it, but she wants to find out why so many people do. So she and her producer, Nicholas Jasenovec, and cameraman Jay Hunter set off around the country to learn more. As they traipse from Amarillo to Albuquerque, and Atlanta to Palm Springs to New York City, we watch Yi bringing her microphone to bear on all sorts of everyday people. An old woman tells her love is a lightning bolt. A college professor says it's a molecular event. She talks to bikers and psychics and high-school sweethearts, and gets a funny scene out of an encounter with an Elvis impersonator in a Las Vegas wedding chapel. To vary the talking-heads texture of the movie, Yi illustrates some of the stories being told to her with elaborate home-made puppet tableaux — which sounds dire, but is actually kind of sweet. Continue reading 'Paper Heart': Unreal Deal, By Kurt Loder
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