by Craig J. Clark
Alex Holdridge and Linnea Saasen turn their personal experience into fodder for this slight but charming indie about a frustrated American filmmaker and a Norwegian dancer he loved and lost.
The resplendent gardens of Versailles take on heavy metaphorical value in Alan Rickman’s love story about the forbidden romance between Kate Winslet as the garden’s lower-class architect and Matthias Schoenaerts as a royal.
Awkward Americanized title aside, this mood-driven, candy-colored French romantic comedy follows its central couple into a survivalist boot camp.
Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Topher Grace, Aubrey Plaza, and Martin Starr are among the talented people wasted in this torturously self-reflexive rom-com about a screenwriter who finds love.
Helen Hunt’s second directorial effort finds her playing an uptight New Yorker changed by California.
Set in the one-day-you’re-in/the-next-day-you’re-out” world of high fashion, Sean Garrity’s ludicrous romantic comedy stars Portia Doubleday as a would-be fashionista who poses as a man in order to get a job in the industry.
Writer-director-star Ryan Piers Williams offers a Whitman’s sampler of romantic fizzlings in this uneven collection of vignettes, centered on lonelyhearts in New York.