Helping escalate the divorce rate is the continuing history of movies based on a couple of notions: opposites attract (nonsense), and you aren’t complete without a perfect relationship in your life (utter bullshit.)
You didn’t realize emotion could get in the way of living happily ever after? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?
Actually, one of the best pleasures of seeing movies is experiencing moments of recognition – yes, that's exactly right, that’s exactly the way it would have happened. Shit gets messy.
Celeste and Jesse Forever is filled with moments like this. It has an eye and an ear for the way things really are. About once a decade, a movie captures this realism. In the 80s, it was About Last Night (my favorite movie of all time), in the 90s it was Love Jones, in the 2000s it was The Last Kiss.
Celeste and Jesse Forever stars Rashida Jones as Celeste, and she’s super cute and acts her ass off in a very emotional role. She wrote the film with her ex-boyfriend Will McCormack (now there’s an amicable breakup), who took a smaller role, but steals all of his scenes. Playing Rashida’s husband is Andy Samberg, and his character Jesse is goofy and sad and in over his head.
This is an independent film in almost every way, shot in three weeks with a budget so small, Rashida’s car in the film is her real Prius. Her house is hers, too. So it’s completely driven by dialogue and situations and it’s a film that’s real and hilarious and you should see it. Or just wait ten years for the next one.
