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Seen @ Sundance Film Festival 2009: PAPER HEART
Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi won the WALDO SALT Screenwriting Award for PAPER HEART.


2009 Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition Film
PAPER HEART (Running Time: 88 min; Rated: PG-13)
Reviewed by Denise Castillón

Paper Hearts’ documentary within a documentary style thoroughly seduces you into its’ love-seeking journey, laughing every step of the way with its’ convincingly, uncomfortable seeker, Charlyne Yi, that you totally forget this is largely a fictional story.

Actress and comedienne Charlyne Yi takes us along on her cross-country trek to conduct interviews with real-life people, who have experienced true love, in hopes she may uncover her own capacity to fell in love. Lo and behold, Yi meets fellow comedic actor, Michael Cera, at a party. From then on, the film focuses on their hilariously, clumsy courtship that develops into an equally hysterical, uneasy relationship.

When Charlyne Yi accepted the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for her film PAPER HEART, co-written with her director, Nicholas Jasenovec, she noted the irony that the film went into production with only fifteen written pages of script, with the rest of the films’ dialogue improvised on the set.