Reading Group trip : Watching Rye Lane on Rye Lane . . .



Loved loved loved Rye Lane ― it’s a love letter to Peckham, Brixton, Southbank; full of colour; a classic meet-cute romcom that hits all the right notes for a satisfying meet-cute romcom but still manages to be fresh. Had me googling that Brixton street photographer we looked at once (Armet Francis ― see below) because it really reminded me of his use of colour and way of catching real life and making it art. Opening toilet scenes up there with Trainspotting and Sex Education; and they’ve definitely been raiding Clem’s Art vocabulary list for excellent Jokes About Art. Director Raine Allen-Miller describes it as ‘an unapologetically joyful film’ and she is totally right. “I moved to South London when I was 12. It is a colourful place, so it was effortless to shoot. We added production design in some places but it was just there in others”. https://www.salon.com/2023/03/31/rye-lane-hulu-raine-allen-miller/ 

I totally missed the Love Guac’tually cameo reference until the penny dropped later … Reckon Peckham is the new Notting Hill . . .

Highly recommend watching it at the PeckhamPlex for the full meta experience of watching scenes shot in the cinema where you’re watching the film ― and going during the day time so you spill straight out into the live action version of Rye Lane.

Rye Lane at the PeckhamPlex

https://time.com/6267667/rye-lane-hulu-british-rom-com-south-london/

https://www.firstshowing.net/2023/behind-the-scenes-look-at-raine-allen-millers-wonderful-rye-lane/

https://youtu.be/3oUCNB6ZNKc



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https://youtu.be/C2k3esJHFuE

Vanity Fair: Michelle Yeo & The Daniels break down fight scene from Everything Everywhere . . .

EEAAO great pairing with Rye Lane because both films bring a hyperreal, cartoon-esque edge to the everyday: though EEAAO pushes it way to extremes . . . But even with sausage-fingers and the meta verse it manages to be super relatable and encapsulate those whole identity crises we all go through; which is also a theme of Rye Lane; and both look at how we are when we’re in relationships, how they impact on us and our own sense of self. That weird tension between relationships as the ultimate happy ending versus the reality that they’re kind of hard work and undermining of the self. costume and colour and cameos are also great in this one, and I recommend the vanity fair youtube link above because a) they’re all so great and clearly love what they do and b) it kind of blows your mind that this scene in the film that has a real intimacy to it (if you overlook the crazed psycho smashing at the car windows!) was actually filmed with Michelle Yeoh in a different country against a green screen because of the pandemic . . .

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