The first reviews of Emily’s upcoming romantic comedy ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ also starring Ryan Gosling and Patricia Clarkson have emerged on Ain’t it Cool. Read them here and here. They’re making me want to see this as soon as possible!

“Unlike Little Miss Sunshine, this is an indie comedy with real soul, not all too perfectly quirky characters whose lives fall apart according to the jokes. What struck me is how amazingly real the premise is played, never pandering to the comedy and never pushing false profundity and hope on us. Instead it allows its characters to breathe and through that the story flourishes instead of becoming a slave to gags. What you see, rather than a comedy, is human beings reacting to a situation that happens to be comedic the way you or I would. And while it’s an absolutely hilarious film, the filmmakers (and Gosling) never shy away from the fact that Lars is a very troubled individual with incredibly deep seeded insecurities, and as a result we have some very funny scenes punctuated with heart breaking drama.

A big nod also belong to Paul Schneider and the ethereal Emily Mortimer as Lars’s brother and sister in law.”