The swoony romantic drama, once a staple of the cinema, is all but nonexistent now. These movies—the ones that immortalized the longing glance, the furtive sigh, the agonized sob—have been superseded by purported comedies with no jokes in them, films in which stunningly attractive and successful and clever and witty women can’t even buy a date and spend the entire movie bumbling around until they decide to marry either their best friend or someone they’ve never met.
So it’s refreshing to come across Like Crazy, the small, sharply observed, and precise new independent film by a writer-director with the unforgettable name of Drake Doremus. Like Crazy is nothing more or less than the story of two beautiful young people crazy in love and what happens...
