Austin Film Festival 2011

Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones star in this powerful story about two young lovers whose relationship is threatened by international borders.

In the beginning, it’s all so simple. Anna notices Jacob in one of her classes and leaves a romantic poem on his car. For these two naïve college students, this small event paves the way into what could be a love that will last forever. When the UK-born Anna gets too wrapped up in Jacob’s world and decides to overstay her visa, she is deported. Desperately trying to tear through large amounts of bureaucratic red tape, the couple is determined to find a way to keep from letting distance and time rip them apart. Given the fabricated nature of film, capturing realistic relationship moments on screen can often be very difficult, yet director Drake Doremus seems to have the ability to do this in spades. Like Crazy is full of so many indelibly true scenarios that you almost forget entirely that you are watching a film. That is until you experience the pitch perfect editing. All the fat is trimmed, leaving us with only the concise, poignant moments necessary to make up this story. In his third feature, Doremus does not dawdle or bask in a love for his material. He instead leans on it, knowing that the perfect two-minute scene is much more effective than the lovely four-minute scene. The results are breathtaking – a film that lets you relive all the pleasures and pains of young love within 89 minutes. Yelchin and Jones shine together on screen - both parties worthy of falling deeply in love with. The Grand Prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Like Crazy is destined to be one of the greatest love stories of our time as it stands apart from most of its contemporaries in making a very potent statement about the power of true love.









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