Sedona, AZ: “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.
“This is such a coup for us to get this film six weeks before its release in the major film cities,” said festival director Patrick Schweiss. “It is a delightful feel-good comedy with a lot of heart that presents a humorous look at the various ups and downs of a love affair.”
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.
