![]() ![]() ![]() Their shoulders just slightly too close for platonic comfort as they ride home, the two strangers share a guarded but instantly relaxed dynamic. ![]() That’s true from the moment 31-year-old Travis ( Matt McGorry) ditches his ex’s nuptials and is offered a ride back to New York by 44-year-old Ellen (Amy Hargreaves), who has come to the festivities without her husband Henry (Mark Blum), stuck tending to a sick mother in Florida. Though Meyers’ handheld cinematography can occasionally become too shaky-cam wobbly, his widescreen framing attunes itself to the the spaces between characters as a means of expressing their waxing and waning closeness. Mature and moving in its navigation of convoluted, conflicting desires, it’s an indie as assured in its silences as it is in its speeches, and should resonate with discerning audiences during its limited theatrical run. ![]() Attending a former girlfriend’s wedding is possibly the least likely way to meet a new flame, but that’s only the first of several unexpected developments to befall a young New Yorker in “How He Fell in Love.” Writer-director Marc Meyers’ first feature since 2010’s “Harvest” uses its initial meet-cute scenario as the jumping-off point for an intimate and incisive portrait of a clandestine affair, and the thorny consequences it begets for all involved. ![]()
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