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Lonely Planet Is the Most Evil of This Year’s Age-Gap Romances
What if the only person who understood you was a guy in private equity who hates his girlfriend?
Owen shows up as the plus-one of Lily (Diana Silvers), a successful young novelist who has blown up à la Sally Rooney (whose new novel, Intermezzo, incidentally, also features an age-gap relationship). That neither Katherine nor Owen is compelled to buy into the social contract of the residency is one of several reasons Lonely Planet reeks of a kind of evil not otherwise found in this year’s crop of age-gap romances. Lonely Planet might have worked as a satire about writers, self-serious and irritating in their quirks, if the film had a sense of humor, but Grant’s screenplay moves at a glacial pace with the same events occurring over and over.
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