If there is one thing that The Drama, Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli's hotly debated romantic comedy drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as the soon-to-wed Emma and Charlie, immediately got me thinking about when I watched it last week, it is our eternal struggle to keep up appearances.
As a high-achieving literary editor at fictional publisher Mission Publishing and the head curator of Boston's Cambridge Art Museum (the real Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts), respectively, the young, promising couple does that exceptionally well in the storied city apartment they share throughout the film. Until, days before the big 'I do', a long-kept secret leaves their perfectly imperfect nest unraveled...
