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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World...
Is funny, kind, gentle, and sad.
Of course I'm going to love most any movie staring Keira Knightly (I may be middle-aged, but I'm not dead!) but this neat little love story sneaks up on you. It starts as a vaguely surreal and crude comedy, makes a few quasi-predictable twists and turns, throws in a surprise or two, then it ends like we only dare dream it might end.
I saw it in the theater in 2012. The film is almost beatific. It uses to a bittersweet effect a pop ditty from 1966 called "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" as performed by The Walker Brothers. Blue-eyed soul never had it so good.
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