‘Chemical Hearts’ Director Says Teen Romance Isn’t a Typical YA Film
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variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDon’t call “Chemical Hearts” a YA romance?True, on paper, the story of a precocious teenager named Henry who becomes emotionally entangled with Grace, a psychologically wounded young woman, sounds very much in the vein of “The Fault in Our Stars” or “Looking for Alaska.” But Richard Tanne, the film’s writer and director, said that what drew him to “Chemical Hearts” was its underlining sense of melancholy and its willingness to deconstruct certain cliches of the genre.The film, which begins streaming on Amazon Prime on Aug.
21, marks Tanne’s followup to 2016’s “Southside With You,” a romantic drama that received acclaim for the audacity with which it imagined Barack and Michelle Obama’s first.
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