Since Rom-Coms has a resuscitation in Hollywood, Anti-Rom-Com is on its way. Cue the brilliant ”I love you forever“As IndieWire may announce has been acquired by Utopia for theater distribution after premiere at 2024 SXSW Film & TV festival.
It is almost shocking to believe that Pitch Perfect Tone-driven Ode to Millennial Milieu is the director of co-author Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani. However, it is perfect that it in front of his taste maker Diablo Cody produced it.
“Single Drunk Female” Breakout Star Sofia Black-D’elia leads the film as team student Mackenzie, who meets the man in her dreams, Finn (Ray Nicholson), at the birthday party of her bestie (author/director David). However, charming broadcast journalist is soon revealed to be a narcissist, and Mackenzie’s perfect love story becomes an upcoming nightmare to live in an abusive relationship in vision.
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Co -author/directors Kalani and David created earlier Critically acclaimed web series “Eighty -six.” David Previously, IndieWire told That “I love you forever” is not supposed to be a mainstream function – rather India was done for those who have also survived narcissistic abuse and been gas -lit to doubt themselves. The film was also made to train others while the validated experience.
“This movie probably won’t reason with someone who doesn’t have a personal experience to a relationship like this,” David told IndieWire. “We are very aware of it. But we really wanted to make a movie that was a founded representation of emotional abuse, especially in an emotionally abusive relationship. People who have undergone something similar can hopefully feel seen during such a confusing, isolating experience. “
In addition, it is actually very fun, while it still balances the right tone of respectful seriousness during particularly triggering sequences.
“We love comedy, and we also like to do things that have some kind of (message) and mean something. This was a story that we felt like we wanted to tell, ”David continued. “We really wanted to make a Rome-com for our generation, something that only felt related to the dating pool now. When we did both of these things, we came to this realize that a Rom-Com can also include meeting someone who stops being poisonous. We satirized the bombing of love, and it became our film. ”
The Indieview review Compared to “I love you forever” with “Fatal Attarraction”, “Loveing Young Woman” and “American Pyscho” – at least when it comes to Nicholson’s turn as Finn.
“With Nicholson’s smile that he inherited from his real father Jack Nicholson, it makes it all the romantic horror movie to feel more real,” the review reads. “Nicholson sells the audience at Finn who sells himself to Mackenzie, and it is not that Mackenzie is too blind to see her faults; It’s just that Finn is to Good for an emotional addict. (…) Just don’t call the feature an erotic thriller. No, “I love you forever” develops as a documentary for those who have lived a similar experience – and a stalker horror movie to others. ”
“I Love You Forever” premieres at Quad Cinema in New York on February 7 from Utopia and will be available at Digital on Valentine’s Day, February 14. Check out the trailer below.
