Ben Palmer
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Four Weddings And A Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary , er… For whatever reason, Brits don’t do romantic comedies too often or too well, especially if you remove Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant from the equation.
As in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” single life is presented as an obstacle course of undue social pressure even for women of an early certain age: Nancy is just 34, but as she informs her married, prying older sister, she’s already “too old for this s–t.”
The best romantic comedies in recent years have often been small independent films, lurking inside other genres such as fantasy (Ruby Sparks), science-fiction (The One I Love) and family discord (In a World), so that they can comment on the tangle of attraction and personality without being obvious.