‘The New Romantic’ Trailer: The Rom-Com Revival Continues
Rom-coms are back in a big way.Crazy Rich Asians,To All the Boys I’ve Loved BeforeandSet It Uphave all garnered buzz and praise this year. Joining the rom-com revival isThe New Romantic, a film that played at SXSW and will finding its way to theaters in November. The film follows a college student who decides to start dating older men in exchange for gifts. WatchThe New Romantictrailer below.
The New Romantic Trailer
WillThe New Romantichave as much of an impact as the rom-coms mentioned above? It’s hard to say. The film debuted at SXSW earlier this year, where it was met with mixed reviews. Variety’sreviewcalled it “More tragic than funny.” IndieWiresaid: “In a sense,The New Romanticsuccumbs to the same nervous uncertainty that gnaws at its heroine, so anxious about how it compares to pre-existing stories that it misses a few golden opportunities to tell one of its own.”
But The Film Stagecountered: “The New Romanticis the rare film presents these relationships without judgment offering up the good, bad, painful, and confusing as a matter of fact.” And Crooked Marqueaddedthe film is “charming and funny, a very overt nod to Nora Ephron.”
The New Romanticmarks the feature debut of writer-directorCarly Stone, and starsJessica Barden,Hayley Law,Brett Dier,Avan Jogia,Timm Sharp, andCamila Mendes. “I love telling stories about women who are unapologetically making bold choices,” Stone said in an interview withDeadline. “That’s kind of how the story took off, from that jumping point.”
In a separate interview, Stoneadded: “My film is related to #MeToo in that the whole #MeToo movement relates to the way our society functions…When I was writing, I asked myself: What’s more powerful – money or sex? A woman can harness her sexuality for power, but who has the ultimate power, and why?”
The New Romanticopens in select theaters onNovember 9, 2018before arriving on digital and On DemandNovember 13, 2018.
Frustrated with the lack of chivalrous guys her own age, a college senior gives up on dating for love to date an older man in exchange for gifts instead.
