Hollywood’s new kind of love story

Hollywood’s new kind of love story Cornerstone Films In Animals, two wild-living best friends reach a crossroads in their relationship For years they’ve played second fiddle to romantic interests, but friends are finally getting their due on the big screen, writes Clare Thorp. This is the reason to continue fighting and to go to the ends of the Earth for the person.” Marvel Studios Brie Larson has argued that friendship was the driving force in Captain Marvel Of course, the Marvel Universe includes countless friendships, but for such a movie juggernaut to put a love story between two women at the heart of its film – in place of a traditional romance – signified a wider shift seen in film in 2019. Universal Pictures The Guardian called Girl’s Trip “a foul-mouthed yet warm-hearted film” The best friend is a recurring role, but films that prioritise friendships over romantic storylines – and don’t involve women either falling out over men or bonding over a man’s terrible behaviour – have still proved relatively rare. “At the time I didn’t feel like I’d read anything like that, though I think there’s been loads of great things since.” IFC Films In the comic fable Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a young dancer navigating a shifting relationship with her best friend It’s perhaps because of a lack of nuanced stories on the subject that a film released all the way back in 1978 is still referenced as one of the most seminal on female friendship.