Modern Romance (1981)
Directed by Albert Brooks
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
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The style and focus of the film reminds me of Albert Brooks‘ 1981 film Modern Romance .
Y lo que quería era proyectar la desesperación de Modern Romance (1981), con todo el trauma de codependencia, frente a la sensación de encierro de Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973) (Secretos de un Matrimonio) de Ingmar Bergman (sin todo el lujo de diálogos perfectos del mítico director sueco).
Think Modern Romance, only with mushrooms and body horror.
The result is undeniably grim and wounding and blackly funny and may well be the most terrifyingly incisive portrait of a relationship that has gone on way past its sell-by date since Albert Brooks’s 1981 masterpiece “Modern Romance.”
Here’s a slice of the eclectic roll call of influences Aster cites for his piss-elegant procession: artist Joel-Peter Witkin, Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage,” works by Sergei Parajanov, Lars von Trier, and Gaspar Noé and Albert Brooks’ “Modern Romance,” which Aster calls his “favorite breakup movie ever.”
Which is not to undervalue the good and plentiful jokes in Segel's script, a mash-up of "10," "Modern Romance" and "Better Off Dead...," no doubt enlivened by spontaneous invention on the set.