The Broken Hearts Gallery
The better romantic comedies experience very personal while at the same time being worldwide for their multiplication , and by that measureThe Broken Hearts Galleryfits properly in . Helmed by first - time director and longtime television author Natalie Krinsky ( Gossip Girl ) , the film tackle how one young woman moves past her older relationship with a literal fine art veranda made up of her broken heart .
Krinsky spoke with Screen Rant about the 10 - year journey to her directorial debut , and why she finds heartbreak both isolating and unifying .
Natalie , how are you ?
Natalie Krinsky : Well , I ’m literally three day postpartum . I just gave birth to my second babe three days ago , and I have a motion-picture show coming out into this world . So , I ’m erect and it ’s a profits .
Congratulations on the child and the pic . That ’s the best of both worlds right there . You ’ve been write for a while now , but this is your directorial debut . Why was this project so personal to you ? Can you utter a little bit more about the journeying from behind the keyboard to behind the camera ?
Natalie Krinsky : I would hump to . I first indite this movie 10 years ago . It ’s the first screenplay I ever wrote . And I was at the metre a struggling writer ; I had been fired from my job , I had broken up with my boyfriend , I was moving apartments , and I was sorting through the junk of my living adjudicate to figure out how I was ever die to move on and I was ever gon na make it , quite frankly . And the musical theme for this photographic film was suffer .
I do n’t know if it is that it ’s my first , or that it came from my own life in so many way . But it always carry a special place in my center . Scripts , as I ’m sure many of your picture show fanatics know , sometimes are like kinship . And at a certain point in time , you just gravel to go , " This one is not meant to be , and I ’m going to put it away and attempt to move on . " I had done that , and then my producers and financiers , No Trace Camping , approached me four or five years ago , when I was actually meaning with my first child . They said , " We have it away this film , we believe in this movie , and we want to make it . " It was like an ex-husband begging me to get back together . I was like , " Okay , sure . It ’s gon na be unlike this time . "
And indeed it was . I did a rewrite on the book - a reasonably grownup rescript - and I knew exactly what I wanted it to be and what I want it to look like , and we sing about that a lot . And when I was finally done , they kind of say to me , " Well , why do n’t you direct it ? " I could not believe , frankly , my luck . I was sort of so taken aback by the question , I say , " What do I need to do ? Do I need to act it out or make a real ? What do you want from me ? " And they said , " You know what it is . Just dive in and say yes . " And so I said , " give thanks you for countenance me have it away what it feels like to be a neat white guy . I ’m pop off to be directing Jurassic Park next . "
I dove in , and it was frankly it ’s the big joyousness of my life . I ’ve never had more fun doing anything .
It seems that many successful romantic comedies have something in common - they capture the essence of communicating for that fourth dimension period . InWhen Harry Met Sally , we ’ve start out the coffee shop view . You’ve Got Mailhad the first light of the cyberspace . Your motion picture wangle to capture how hashtags bestow people together . Can you talk to me about how you come near that in the story ?
Natalie Krinsky : Sure . I mean , I cerebrate that sort of come from this thought that we all require to glom on to something . Especially in this minute where we ’ve been in quarantine or our lives have markedly changed , to find something that ’s common for us is , I think , so important in this humanity just in general .
I think that in this case , it is sort of impersonate perhaps by the hashtag . But ultimately , when we go through a breakup , there ’s nothing more isolating and solitary . And what you finally realize is that it ’s like a rite of passage . It ’s the most unifying experience we ’ve all ever had . So , hashtag get your heartbroken . It ’ll be okay .
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