![]() In films such as Bringing Up Baby or The Lady Eve, there’s some almost catastrophic mistake that separates the couples, who then get back together with new possibilities for forgiveness and mutual education. For Cavell, all the great romcoms are comedies of remarriage rather than marriage. ![]() ![]() The best exploration of the genius of classic Hollywood romcoms is philosopher Stanley Cavell’s 1981 book Pursuits of Happiness – which I suspect Sittenfeld has read. Appropriately, she’s in the midst of trying to write a script for a romcom with a strong and capable female lead. It’s only two years later, when they are both isolated in lockdown and he risks sending her an email, that they reconnect. She can’t believe that Noah really fancies her, and at the aftershow party, just when he’s about to lean in for a kiss, she makes a cruel and self-sabotaging remark about him dating models. ![]() ![]() What can go wrong? It just so happens that this particular week, Sally is writing a sketch about the way that pasty-skinned, sleep-deprived male writers get to go out with gorgeous female movie stars, but such couples never exist with the genders switched. ![]()
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