As part of my Easter Movie Marathon, I decided that I wanted to watch a current comedy, after the two dramas and the two classic films, and so I chose Heartbreaker, a movie I've been wanting to rewatch since seeing it at the Traverse City Film Festival last summer. The premise of the movie is somewhat that of the anti-Hitch: the main character runs a small business whose income is gained by breaking up couples. People hire them when they know a girl who is unhappy in a relationship, but they don't know it.
Yes, it's a romantic comedy, but let me give you a couple of reasons why you'll actually want to watch this one: it's French, and even people who don't really care for romcoms really liked it. Now, when I saw it in the theatre, there was a slight increase of the enjoyment factor (there is an ambience at the TCFF that you just can't beat), and there were a couple of minutes that I laughed/giggled non-stop (it helped that Dara kept laughing, too, and we kept setting each other off). Even though I expected these parts the second time around, it was still great.
Definitely take a watch: there were also rumors that there was going to be an American remake of the film, but I don't know that it could match this one.
Score: 9/10
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