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Too Much Recap: Pillow Talk
A riff on Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise gives us 30 minutes of more-or-less uninterrupted chemistry between Felix and Jess.
In a movie that follows the standard dictates of a romantic comedy (couple meets, falls in love, breaks up, gets back together), the montage is used to speed up the get-to-know-you stage, allowing us to move on to the drama of the break-up and have our heartstrings tugged. “Ignore Sunrise” doesn’t totally pass Vulture’s bottle-episode test — there are some extra set-ups and scenes that surely added some rows to the shoot’s budget spreadsheet — but it does give us 30 minutes of more-or-less uninterrupted chemistry between Felix and Jess. The bottle-episode guide explains that, because of the strictures of the form, the episodes tend to “create some reason for everyone to get stuck inside this small place: a door is locked, there’s a deadline, there’s a bomb threat, there’s something to wait for.” In this case, Jess has to make an 8:30 a.m. meeting after getting a “bollocking,” as Felix puts it, from Jonno (Richard E. Grant).
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