(500) Giorni Insieme

The romantic comedy deftly navigates the neural tightropes of a passionate love affair in a beautiful and original way.

"(500) Days of Summer" is something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy. It bristles with energy, emotional and intellectual, as it flits about the dizzying highs and weeping-karaoke lows of a passionate entanglement. The film's many virtues include an unusual storytelling conceit, a sharp sense of music, a lover's-eye view of Los Angeles and on-the-money performances by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Tom (Gordon-Levitt), a greeting-card writer and frustrated architect, falls head over heels for office mate Summer (Deschanel), whose slightly off-kilter loveliness is terminally enhanced by their shared affection for the Smiths and their ability to turn IKEA into a fun house. [...]

di Michael Ordoña, articolo completo (3925 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 17 luglio 2009