The formally inventive anti-romantic comedy (as it is called by its makers) takes the viewers in a non-linear manner through 500 days of one relationship. The girl Summer (Zooey Deschanel) does not believe in true love and the boy Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has fallen madly in lov with her. This dynamic postmodern love story, or actually “a story about love”, brings a fresh and cliché-free approach to the genre of romantic movies. The film is divided into music-videos-like episodes which depict the varying feelings and moods of a relationship. Through those the narrator and main hero remembers and reframes his 500 days in Los Angeles full of promises, uncertainty, magic, distance, tenderness, intimacy, awkwardness, passion, fury, ecstasy and Summer.
The formally inventive anti-romantic comedy (as it is called by its makers) takes the viewers in a non-linear manner through 500 days of one relationship. The girl Summer (Zooey Deschanel) does not believe in true love and the boy Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has fallen madly in lov with her. This dynamic postmodern love story, or actually “a story about love”, brings a fresh and cliché-free approach to the genre of romantic movies. The film is divided into music-videos-like episodes which depict the varying feelings and moods of a relationship. Through those the narrator and main hero remembers and reframes his 500 days in Los Angeles full of promises, uncertainty, magic, distance, tenderness, intimacy, awkwardness, passion, fury, ecstasy and Summer.