When moviesposition a main character as a globe-trotting, emotionally unmoored soulsearcher with a damaged heart, why do they always make them a writer? Everyone’sseen this movie before; a protagonist, usually a writer, jets off to an exoticlocale to recover from an emotional trial, they soak up the culture, rediscovera lost part of themselves, and inevitably fall for the all-knowing local that’sbeen nudging them along.
“Sublet” runs with this recipe without manydeviations, using the basic outline from “Under the Tuscan Sun,” “Eat PrayLove,” and the Colin Firth bit from “Love Actually” with an Israeli, Lgbtqslant.Continue reading Eytan Fox’s ‘Sublet’ Walks a Well-Worn Path [Review] at The Playlist.
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