Rye Lane is one of the best rom-coms of the last few years in part because of how well it uses London. annarosemary digs into why loving a rom-com's setting is so important:
London is a mass of bustling neighborhoods, subdivisions that are alive and constantly redefining their boundaries as the city grows up and out. Allen-Miller enacts this with creative camera movements, swiveling around to take in the graffiti-lined streets and wielding a fisheye lens to follow characters wandering between crowded stalls.
Dom and Yas’ love story is contained within this space and time, specific to Peckham and its inner workings. In keeping with this, their relationship thrives in transit–the period spent traversing different boroughs, sacrificed to what I affectionately call “the black hole of time” specific to South London .
Every good genre film must pay attention to the trappings of their setting, but it is especially relevant for the romantic comedy. There is a particular warmth and relatability that the rom-com audience seeks. Most everyone can relate to the sudden, heady crush that overwhelms Yas and Dom in the space of a day, or the slow-burn, sizzling affection of Harry and Sally–but the sense of relatability must extend to the space they exist in.
Relationships are beholden to place and time. Sometimes they are temporary glimpses of joy, like a blissful weekend getaway, and sometimes they are hard-won, the result of years spent learning a city and making it your own. Great filmmakers function as emotional cartographers, mapping the inroads and passages that can feel familiar to us, even when we’ve never actually been there.
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