 |
Starring: Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Review: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl. It?s been done to emo death. That?s why the sublimely smart-sexy-joyful-sad (500) Days of Summer hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen. It turns the genre on its empty head and sees relationships for what they are — a bruising business. Someone?s heart always gets ripped out. Meet Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, letting his charm flag fly), a would-be architect idling in L.A. as a writer of greeting cards. In strolls his boss?s new assistant, Summer (the glorious Zooey Deschanel), and Tom?s a goner. For her, prizing independence, their affair is a lark. For him, raised on sappy Brit pop and a total misreading of The Graduate (he thinks the ending is happy), it?s love. So when she walks away, firmly but with kindness, you feel… Rating: 3 Stars |
(500) Days of Summer
July 16th, 2009 by Rolling Stone Movie ReviewsSyndicated Reviews
