There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd.
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
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