"Autumn in New York" is a melodramatic, highly romanticized, and somewhat predictable old guy, young babe love story. However, Chen does a masterful job of choreographing the technical and artistic with the story making it easy to buy into this film which keeps the Kodak moments to a minimum, fast forwards past the fluff, and sticks to it's purpose of developing characters and story.
Many seem to have forgotten that romantic melodrama is a genre, not a liability. When times were tough (eg:WWII), this genre was Hollywood's most popular and offered blessed escapism for a needy public. Critics and naysayers be damned. Within its genre, "Autumn..." is one of the year's best.
Many seem to have forgotten that romantic melodrama is a genre, not a liability. When times were tough (eg:WWII), this genre was Hollywood's most popular and offered blessed escapism for a needy public. Critics and naysayers be damned. Within its genre, "Autumn..." is one of the year's best.