Sundance in love with romantic comedies

January 20, 2009 "There's been such innovation in really simple love stories this year," fest director Geoffrey Gilmore said. There's Jay DiPietro's "Peter & Vandy," which tells the story of a couple's conjoining and dissolution using a fractured, "Memento"-like structure; "An Education," an offbeat romance involving a young girl and older man in tumultuous 1960s London; "Paper Heart," a quasi-documentary about Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera's search for love; and "Adventureland," Greg Mottola's look at 1980s absurdism and love triangles at a Pittsburgh theme park. The darker side of human emotions, for instance, is still explored.

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