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Title: Language of a Broken Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director: Rocky Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring: Juddy Talt, Lara Pulver, Kate French, Julie White, Ethan Cohn, Oscar Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Language of a Broken Heart” is exactly the movie that one expects it to be — a frustrating quality for some, perhaps, but smooth medicine for those who trust and like writer-actors’ puppy dog tales that unfold loosely in the vein of the work of Edward Burns. An earnest, uncomplicated\u00a0and funny-around-the-edges little romantic comedy about a guy on the rebound but still stuck in psychological orbit of his ex, multi-hyphenate Juddy Talt’s movie works best as a showcase for his talents.<\/p>\n

The story is paper thin, even by genre standards. Nick (Talt) is a best-selling author who can write eloquently about feelings and love, but can’t ever seem to find a woman that doesn’t cheat on him. (There’s some truth-in-therapy insights about his romantic picker to be tilled, but this isn’t that movie.) When his fianc\u00e9e Violet (Lara Pulver)\u00a0suggests a break after a dalliance with another man, Nick leaves New York City and heads home to reconnect with family and friends, including best pal Cubbie (Ethan Cohn) and his mom Mimi (Julie White). A luggage screw-up leads\u00a0him to meet free spirit Emma (Kate French), who wears berets, shoots a mean game of pool\u00a0and pushes Nick out of his comfort zone.<\/p>\n

Emma is of course a total cinematic fantasy construct — the perfectly made-up girl with beaming white teeth and “dorky hip” glasses who, you know, also manages an unopened antiquarian bookstore she recently inherited from her grandmother. She’s fun-loving and “spontaneous,” and uses words like scallywag. And Nick, as written,\u00a0isn’t necessarily much better developed; he’s kind of clueless, and a doormat, which doesn’t track with his professional success.<\/p>\n

Still, just when one might be ready to punch themselves in the head over the preciousness of said logline and description, it’s a pleasure to report that “Language of a Broken Heart” wins out — at least on the margins, for those\u00a0predisposed to have an interest in laid-track rom-coms —\u00a0by way of its way of its performances and interplay. It’s kind of nice that Talt doesn’t resort to slapstick-y hijinks or gross-out humor; his screenplay, however functional the characterizations,\u00a0is at least rooted in the interactions and recognizably human frustrations of those characters. Oscar Nu\u00f1ez, of “The Office,” contributes a funny supporting performance as Nick’s therapist, who’s undergoing his own divorce, and there are some\u00a0smart little well-observed barbs, too, as when Cubbie, in only the manner a best friend can, takes the piss out of Nick by saying, “I read somewhere that depressions effects losers the most — that’s just science.”<\/p>\n

Talt, who sort of recalls Owen Wilson by way of Chris Evans, is an appealing peg on which to hang “Language of a Broken Heart,” even if it is a well-worn jacket. And French, late of “The L Word,”\u00a0is beautiful and appropriately, engagingly flirty. Apart from a nice time-lapse bit in Times Square, director Rocky Powell delivers a fairly straightforward and blandly shot interpretation of the script. There’s never a real suspension of disbelief here — one always knows they’re watching a movie. But it’s a popular track for a reason, so rom-com fans with an indie appreciation might enjoy just saying, “Play it again, Sam.”<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> For the movie’s trailer and more information, visit its eponymous website.<\/p>\n

Technical: C<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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