John Carney's 'eight groovy little romantic love letters to living now' features a cast that includes Tina Fey, Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, John Slattery, Cristin Milioti, Julia Garner, Andy Garcia, Brandon Victor Dixon and Andrew Scott.
"'Modern Love' was the perfect espresso in the morning — a quick, five-minute read."
In choosing the eight featured stories — which span a diversity of ages, races, sexual orientations and classes — Carney, who wrote and directed most of the episodes, looked through the "Modern Love" collection for columns that brought out an emotional response in he and his fellow writers. The original writers of the columns, who were paid for the use of their stories, were not involved in the creative process so as not to "get bogged down in memoir or biography," but were shown the final episodes to make sure they approved. comes at a time when rom-coms are making a comeback, sparking development particularly at Netflix with films likeNotes on Love
"I think the concept of the rom-com comes from a very interesting place, which is that it's hell falling in love but it also can be really funny, and you can turn that hell into humor if you're smart; otherwise you'd be so wounded and devastated by love that you'd just be walking around like a wounded creature on the side of the road who's been hit by a car," he says. "You kind of have to laugh sometimes in romance.
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