8/16/2023 0 Comments Brokenheartsgallery![]() ![]() Lucy, still unemployed, alone, and steadily irritating her friends with her listlessness, is searching for a way to get rid of some of her broken-relationship detritus. Nick, who has been working on his dream boutique hotel for five years, is out of money and needs help keeping the project going. After that first meeting, the two bump into each other again weeks later. In a meet-cute for our current age, a drunk and despondent Lucy plops herself into a stranger’s car, mistakenly believing that it’s her Lyft home, and in the kind of plot twist that could only exist in a rom-com, driver Nick ( Dacre Montgomery) indulges her by dropping her off. Instead, she’s completely devastated when he dumps her and she loses her job on the same night. To her longtime friends and roommates, law student Amanda ( Molly Gordon) and model Nadine ( Phillipa Soo), Lucy can’t stop gushing (“I just can’t believe he chose little old me,” she says), and she thinks that maybe Max will ask her to move in. She idolizes her boss, Eva Woolf ( Bernadette Peters), and knows practically everything about Eva’s career and her perspective on art-information Lucy readily provides to her boyfriend and colleague at the gallery, Max ( Utkarsh Ambudkar). It’s a sparkling and winning performance from an actor who has already done fine work but is still in the early stages of a greatly promising career.Written and directed by Natalie Krinsky, “The Broken Hearts Gallery” follows 26-year-old Lucy (Viswanathan), who works as an assistant at the prestigious Woolf Gallery in New York City. “Broken Hearts Gallery” leans on so many of those Lucy Moments to carry the day, and Geraldine Viswanathan is always up to the task, whether Lucy is literally pratfalling at the worst possible moment, deflecting a situation with a well-timed quip or allowing herself to consider falling in love again, despite a room filled with painful reminders of relationships gone wrong. Dacre Montgomery as Nick gives a selfless and likable performance in a role that often requires him to simply hang in there and provide a well-timed reaction to another Lucy Moment. ![]() Molly Gordon is equally funny as Amanda, who has an extremely dark bent and a very strange and yet loving relationship with a boyfriend (Nathan Dales) who almost never speaks. Phillipa Soo (Broadway’s Eliza Schuyler in “Hamilton”) kills as Nadine, a self-described “stay at home model” who is an expert at ending relationships. The pop culture references are fast and funny, whether it’s Lucy telling a Harvard grad who never stops mentioning she went to Harvard, “Sorry I couldn’t go to an Ivy, I couldn’t pretend to row crew.” Or an art gallery owner played by the one and only Bernadette Peters telling Lucy, “The last time I saw you was like hearing Brad Pitt talk about architecture. ![]() The “Broken Heart Gallery” becomes a viral hit and merits a feature in New York magazine, and all of a sudden Lucy’s opportunistic ex-boyfriend Max resurfaces, and we’re like: Come on Lucy! Can’t you see this guy is no good, and your growing friendship with Nick could turn into something more?Įven as “Broken Hearts Gallery” travels down a well-worn path, it retains a certain freshness. The work-in-progress hotel becomes the site for Lucy’s impromptu art exhibit: a gallery of objects from fellow “emotional hoarders,” who can finally let go of their unhealthy attachments to items from relationships that have died. That’s weird and borderline creepy, but Lucy is so darn charming and likable and earnest, we just start rooting for her to break free, free from all those ties to her past. When Lucy enters the apartment and tells Nadine and Amanda she’s been dumped, they spring into choreographed comfort mode, draping a blanket around Lucy and giving her chips and dip and wine and a DVD copy of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” But despite their best efforts, Lucy holes up in her bedroom for days, surrounded by an alarming number of souvenirs from past romances. Lucy climbs into the backseat of her Lyft ride and pours her heart out to the driver, who as it turns out isn’t a Lyft driver but a guy named Nick (Dacre Montgomery from “Stranger Things”), who just happened to pull up at the moment Lucy was expecting her ride. Cut to that night, with Lucy looking dazed and devastated after she was dumped by Max and fired from her job in rapid succession. ![]()
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