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"Hollywood was built on the premise that audiences want to watch beautiful people fall in love on a screen 30 feet high. For decades, we proved them right, showering romantic dramas with box office dollars and awards. It baffles me that the studios gave up on the genre. [...] That also must have baffled Canadian writer/director Stella Meghie [...] because [with The Photograph] she has delivered—right on time for Valentine's Day—an unabashed, golden-lit, swoon-inducing, capital-R Romance, starring two of the most gorgeous people you will ever see, Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield. Her camera has its own affair with their silky skin, their expressive eyes, their jewel-toned dream wardrobes. Her story has them inch-inch-inch toward love under velvety night skies to the slow pulse of a jazz score. I, for one, am all here for it."
-- Johanna Schneller

Source:
Schneller, Johanna. "The Photograph proves romance isn't dead, just in time for Valentine's Day: Canadian writer-director Stella Meghie's stars two magnetic performers and boasts a few sigh-inducing moments." Review of The Photograph. Globe and Mail, February 14, 2020.