Over recent years, pop-culture references in romantic comedy dramas have been developing so much that they have become a good way for young artists to compile what they love among things made by other popular artists... People such as Zach Braff or Jason Reitman (and now Marc Webb) write and/or direct movies, but they also use a lot of great songs for their soundtracks, soundtracks which often look like compilations one would make for their lover, to share their taste and happiness.This movie is no exception to the rule, and proves it from the very beginning, featuring one of the best songs written in the past ten years : Regina Spektor's "Us". The rest of the movie follows this huge example of "pop mood", probably influenced by director Marc Webb's skills in music videos.
The only thing one would perhaps blame in this movie is the falsely-happy-but-in-fact-only-hopeful-ending. Apart from that, it is indeed a beautiful/pretty/intelligent/feelful "not love" story.
PS : it seems that in France, Carla Bruni's reputation did not stand the singer's marriage with our loathsome-loathful president Nicolas Sarkozy ; while I was watching the movie in one of Paris' largest theatres, on one of the biggest screens there, the audience suddenly reacted a bit coldly to the scene that featured the song "Quelqu'un m'a dit"... One like me may add an evil laugh here. Mwahahahaha ! So there.
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