With the winning, chemistry-laden Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller has made one of the best British rom-coms of the past decade. annarosemary's review:
director Raine Allen-Miller admits to not being “a big rom-com fan.” “I think I’m still in denial about it being a rom-com, to be perfectly honest,” she says. It is a testament to her clarity of vision, then, thatstill functions as a perfectly poised romantic comedy, recrafting a genre that has been weighed down by half-hearted interpretations and recreations.
Part of the joy of making a romantic comedy is reimagining the stakes of a story, relitigating what is deemed cinematic. Rather than the traditional blockbuster terrain, you are charting the more familiar fallout from relational misunderstanding. Romantic comedies are bound by relatability, and truly great romantic comedies understand this relatability grows from specificity.
takes place over the course of a day, following Dom and Yas as they wander across South London, concocting new, increasingly ridiculous ways of spending time together. They use local landmarks as a set of interpersonal stepping stones, guiding one another through the physical ruins of their own romantic histories. Everything is captured in sharp, bright colors, reflecting the joy buried in every corner of this city.
Allen-Miller experiments with the focus and angle of the camera, switching between the extremes of the fish-eye lens and wide shots to capture the blurred and busy texture of the city. Such cinematic tools work to interpret how seeing and being seen are crucial to falling in love.
While the central conflict that separates Dom and Yas feels frustratingly contrived, especially in comparison with their grounded rapport, it serves the thrill of the final set-piece. This conclusion draws the characters out of South London, using the scale and gravitas of Central London and the River Thames to serve the grand scope of their love. All the plot points, regardless of their believability, are retroactively justified by such winning romanticism.
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