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Sedona Film Festival Debuts 500 Days of Summer
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“500 Days of Summer” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has been playing to rave audience and critical reviews at festivals since then. The film is not just a love story - it is a story about love, according to Fox Searchlight, who will be distributing the film. “500 Days of Summer” will open in New York and Los Angeles in July. The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona debut of the new romantic comedy on Tuesday, June 9. There will be two screenings of the film at 4 and 7 p.m., at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres. The film is part of the Second Tuesday Cinema Series presented by the film festival. “This is a story of boy meets girl…” begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 Days of Summer, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true-to-life, and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man’s no-holds-barred love affair. Tom still believes, even in this cynical modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once-of-a-kind love. Summer doesn’t — not at all. But that doesn’t stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman — not that he minds any of that — but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. The fuse is lit on Day 1 – when Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a would-be architect turned sappy greeting card writer encounters Summer (Zooey Deschanel), his boss’s breezy, beautiful new secretary fresh off the plane from Michigan. Though seemingly out of his league, Tom soon discovers he shares plenty in common with Summer. By Day 31, things are moving ahead, albeit “casually.” By Day 32, Tom is irreparably smitten living in a giddy, fantastical world of Summer on his mind. By Day 185, things are in serious limbo — but not without hope. And as the story winds backwards and forwards through Tom and Summer’s on-again, off-again, sometimes blissful, often tumultuous dalliance it covers the whole dizzying territory from infatuation, dating, and sex to separation, recrimination and redemption in a whirl of time jumps, split screens, karaoke numbers and cinematic verve – all of which adds up to a kaleidoscopic portrait of why and how we still struggle so laughably, cringingly hard to make sense of love . . . and to hopefully make it real. “500 Days of Summer” began in angst. It was sparked by two young screenwriters — one single and recovering from a badly bruised heart, the other in a long-term relationship — reminiscing over romances that could have been, that maybe should have been, but somehow just . . . weren’t. Almost everyone has had one and, in an age when everything seems to happen faster and more intensely, they seem to be ever more common. So how — wondered writers Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber — does a young romantic survive such a reality? The title sponsor for the event is M&I Bank; the supporting sponsor is Vora Financial. The series is also made possible by a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Sedona. “500 Days of Summer” will be shown at Harkins Sedona Six Theatres on Tuesday, June 9, at 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 or $8 for Film Sedona members, and will be available starting at 3 p.m., that day in the Harkins lobby. Cash or checks accepted only. Film Sedona members can purchase tickets in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office, 1785 W. Hwy. 89A, Suite 2B, or by calling 928-282-1177. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.com. |
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