was this thing of Lucy pulling Nick out of his shell. “He was quite nervous at the beginning because it was something totally different-comedy and having to improvise. “Our dynamic was pretty similar to Lucy and Nick’s,” she says. On set, Viswanathan bonded with her costars, including fellow Australian Montgomery. But then she meets Nick ( Dacre Montgomery), a charismatic, gently macho aspiring hotelier who lends her space to make an exhibit showcasing items donated by brokenhearted lovers all across the city. No amount of cajoling from her friends ( Philippa Soo and Molly Gordon) is enough to quell her sadness. The film, out September 11, stars Viswanathan as Lucy, a stylish art gallery assistant in New York, recouping after a breakup from her boyfriend Max ( Utkarsh Ambudkar). She was looking into the museum while preparing for her upcoming film, the sweet, Selena Gomez-produced rom-com The Broken Hearts Gallery, written and directed by Natalie Krinsky. “One that really stuck with me was a scab from a wound,” recalls actor Geraldine Viswanathan, who perused the museum’s online gallery. The museum boasts expected fare-lingerie, stuffed animals-but it can also host more outré curiosities. They encouraged their friends to do the same, assembling an array of lovelorn items and showing them to the public in the Museum of Broken Relationships, a traveling exhibit that has since been shown in Berlin, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. 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.In 2006, two Croatian artists, Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, cemented the end of their relationship by collecting sentimental items that spoke to their time together. ![]() ![]() “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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