Synopsis
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and actress Zoe Lister-Jones, the film loosely interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy, and the madness that ensues. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?
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Cast
- Zoe Lister-JonesZoe
- Daryl WeinDaryl
- Julie WhiteJoanie
- Andrea MartinHelaine
- Peter FriedmanAlan
- LaChanzeMaggie
- Ebon Moss-BachrachDylan
- Olivia ThirlbyErika
- Pablo SchreiberTurner
- Heather BurnsHannah
Recommendations
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Village Voice
A low-budget romantic comedy that's smart and lively and, in the end, quite affecting. - 70
NPR
The semi-autobiographical, microbudgeted Breaking Upwards is indeed precious. But it's also smart, witty and less self-absorbed than you might reasonably expect. - 70
The New York Times
Like many relationships, Breaking Upwards starts in bed and ends on the street. The journey in between, however, feels as new as anything a tiny budget and a boatload of talent could produce. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film bears an undeniable stamp of authenticity in its depiction of the romantic crisis suffered by two twentysomethings in New York's ever picturesque Greenwich Village. - 60
Time Out
The overall hipness is a little too forced--it’s damn funny when it could’ve been poignant. - 60
Salon
That whole meta-biographical aspect doesn't bug me much because everybody who's ever written or directed a romantic comedy is drawing on their own emotional experience; this one's just a little more obvious about it. - 60
New York Daily News
Best of all is the well-used West Village setting, which feels like the perfect backdrop for a slightly offbeat love story. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
The way the film handles relationships has a similarly light but lived in air to it as well.
