‘Rye Lane’ Sundance Review: A Sunny, Irreverent Tribute To British Rom-Com Forebears

Breathing fresh life into the rom-com genre, Raine Allen Miller’s Rye Lane is a delight. Premiering at Sundance, it pays affectionate tribute to its forebears while injecting a youthful British ene…

The pair begin a conversation and continue it over a vaguely mutual friend’s art exhibit. Turns out he was dumped by his girlfriend and is on the way to meet her to talk things through. His half-hearted attempts to shake off Yas along the journey fail: This is a woman on a mission. There are definitely shades of the “manic pixie dream girl” trope in this spontaneous character, but she also has agency, her own story and is not simply in service of the male lead.

The script from Nathan Byron and Tom Melia also has fun at the expense of its hero and heroine’s romantic woes: One of its messages is not to take yourself too seriously. Most one-liners land — from the broad to the observational, this often is laugh-out-loud funny, helped by a strong supporting cast playing everything from ex partners to lesbian moms.There’s imaginative visual flair in the storytelling.

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