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Paper Heart (2009)
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An over-arching smugness blights this comic investigation into true love. It stars performance artist Charlyne Yi, who adopts a faux childlike inability to understand affairs of the heart when she traverses the US to question couples, precocious kids, marriage-industry eccentrics and even bikers about “happy ever after” romance. Had she stuck to that brief, this hybrid of documentary and make-believe might have been a diverting insight into an emotion that no one quite understands. But she and director Nicholas Jasenovec go all meta-movie and pretend that Yi falls for Juno star Michael Cera, chronicling their courtship with a self-conscious coyness. The precise nature of Yi and Cera's real relationship has been much debated (the press in the States dubbed them “America's Twee-hearts”), but it's an irrelevance beside the superciliousness of the mockumentary conceit and the mediocrity of the pair's acting. DP
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Running time
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87min
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Country of origin
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US
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Genre
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Documentary Comedy Drama
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Charlyne Yi, Nicholas Jasenovec
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Theatrical distributor
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Anchor Bay UK
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UK cinema certificate
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PG
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UK cinema release date
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November 2009
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