Is there an audience out there for a low budget indie that's light, amateurish (in the positive and negative sense of the term), and meandering, but still is a personal work?  Overture will find out when it platforms the Sundance Fest film August 14, 2009.

This is the case of “Paper Heart,” an intermittently charming indie, offering a quirky, offbeat look at the many faces of “true love.”  The film is directed by first-timer Nick Jasenovec, who co-wrote the scenario with Charlyne Yi, who also exec-produced and co-wrote the music with actor Michael Cera, her real-life boyfriend and collaborator.  

There are still interesting stories to be told about World War II.  Ole Christian Madsen's WWII thriller “Flame & Citron, was a commercial hit in Denmark and played at the 2008 Telluride and Toronto film festivals, where it was well-received. 

 

The Danish movie opened on July 31 in N.Y. and will bow August 14 in L.A., with a national release to follow. It's also be available nationwide on IFC Films’ video on demand (VOD) platform.

 

Directed by Nick Jasenovec, “Paper Heart” was co-written by Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi.  The offbeat romantic comedy, starring Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera (real-life boyfriend, who plays himself), premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film fest and wll be released by Overture August 7, 2009. 

 

Long fascinated by the intangible idea of love – and fundamentally not believing in “love at first sight” or any of that “Julia Roberts/English Patient /sobbing-in-the-rain stuff,” Charlyne Yi had always dreamt of making a documentary about the subject.  She knew “true love” was something everybody was searching for, so it was great subject matter. 

Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds will be released by Weinstein Company/Universal on August 21.

With little time to prepare, costume designer Anna Sheppard, production designer David Wasco and special effects makeup artist Greg Nicotero spent the weeks prior to production testing, building and creating quickly. 

 

Wasco relished the chance to do a period movie with Tarantino.  “We tried to make a few of his other projects kind of nebulous period movies. For “Reservoir Dogs,” we evoked the 1970s and the same with “Pulp Fiction,” so that they would be pretty timeless.  This one is late 1930s, early 1940s and we set out to be very accurate,” Wasco says.