(500) Days of Summer

Director: Marc Webb

Year: 2009

Running time: 95 mins

Country: USA

In this current epoch, a time in which the romantic comedy landscape is so shamelessly saturated with crass, superficial fodder, it is decidedly refreshing when a film such as (500) Days of Summer sprouts up organically, like an iridescent flower, from the surrounding manure and, freshly plucked, permeates the atmosphere with a clean fragrance of originality.

This first time feature film for prolific music video auteur Marc Webb, and untried scriptwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, follows the romantic trajectory of Tom Hansen, a somewhat foolishly idealistic Angeleno