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Sleepwalk (2000)
If romance is the most important thing to you, this is your film
James Savoca is in love with his characters. This is a rare and great quality nowadays because many independent films mock or exploit and don't celebrate human beings. James Savoca does.
His male lead Ray (beautifully played by Ivan Martin) loves life. Even when he's scraping the bottom he knows how to have a good time. He falls in love with Henry (a girl), who is a fresh female character, very well captured by a male writer. She is a painter who clearly suffers from loneliness and past rejection, unable to meet an interesting guy in a sea of boring self-interested losers in NY. The way they fall for each other is touching in it's intimacy and playfulness. These are people with no other interest than each other. Savoca has a really nice almost unique way of capturing romance and would be ideally suited to tell more love stories.
Check it out.