Aubrey Plaza and Greta Gerwig, Meta-Ingenues: Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus

Comments (0) By Karina Longworth Thursday, Jun 7 2012

At the end of the press screening of Lola, a colleague turned to me and said, "I can't tell if that was a genius subversion of a bad romantic comedy, or just kinda bad."

Personally, I think it starts as the latter, moves into the realm of the former and ends up somewhere in between. But in its cheeky deflation of the happily-ever-after ethos, Lola is ultimately uninterested in pulling off the magic trick of a sincere romance, which is to actually get us to forget the construction of what we're watching and, momentarily, at least, believe in the possibility of love between the people on screen.

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Ironically, in practice, this intentionally meta movie feels less subversive than Safety Not Guaranteed. Both films assume their viewer is too cool for rom-com school; Lola feeds on that presumed cynicism, while Safety flips it on its head, ambitiously aiming for a transcendence that it almost achieves.

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED | Directed by COLIN TREVORROW | Written by DEREK CONNOLLY | Film District | AMC Century City, AMC Burbank 16

LOLA VERSUS | Directed by DARYL WEIN | Written by WEIN and ZOE LISTER-JONES | Fox Searchlight | Landmark