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Young Werther: Interview with Writer/Director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço
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Young Werther: Interview with Writer/Director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Unrequited love has been romanticized over the centuries for encouraging people to overcome any obstacle to win the heart of the one they desire. Filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço’s new romantic comedy, Young Werther, is driven by people’s relentless motivation to prove their worthiness to the one hey love. They’ll fight…

Karen Benardello
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TIFF: Modern-Day Old School Antics in ‘Young Werther’
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TIFF: Modern-Day Old School Antics in ‘Young Werther’

Can a popular book from the eighteenth century be adapted into a modern-day movie? That’s the question that filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço explores in Young Werther, based on what the film introduces in its opening titles as the 1774 hit novel comparable to Beatlemania, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther….

Abe Friedtanzer
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