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One boy and one girl, connected though apart, at the Philly Intl. Film Festival

(Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer) This is the first film of the 20th Anniversary Philadelphia Film Festival. It will be shown during the opening-night celebration at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

For as long as there have been movie romances, conventional practitioners of the form have adhered to the three-act rule of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl. Drake Doremus is not a conventional practitioner.

Like Crazy, his acute romance starring the appealing Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones as impetuous young lovers, has its own rhythms. In it, girl meets boy, girl loses visa, girl and boy struggle to maintain intimacy over long distance. In it, girl and boy wonder whether intimacy is possible without proximity. In it, longing is to the lovers what photosynthesis is to plants.