“Naturally, I really wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a story where it was a guy bumbling and being funny and a woman just absorbing the jokes along with the audience,” she said. Screenwriters Nathan Byron and Tom Melia developed the script alongside Allen-Miller for two years - she’s quick to note that the effort was a collective and collaborative one - and the director offered plenty of ideas to help shape the feature to her desires (a notable one: The original script was set in Camden, and Allen-Miller changed locations to Brixton and Peckham).Īllen-Miller also wanted to play up the “more surreal moments” of the film - like when Dom and Yas bring the other into key memories, including a movie theater sequence that takes us inside the end of Dom’s previous relationship - to keep the story “slightly more elevated.” She also wanted to make sure that Dom didn’t make off with all the best gags, subtly twisting a rom-com trope to keep her stars on a level field. The simplicity of that was definitely appealing to me.”Įmma Thompson Defends Rom-Coms: Genre Is ‘No More Formulaic’ Than Other Films “If you remove the words ‘rom-com’, it’s a funny film, and it’s a really simple film about two people walking around and getting to know each other. “I think it was the right thing because I was able to add so much of myself to this,” the director said of the finished film.
The film, which debuted at Sundance in January to acclaim, winningly mashes up everything from “Before Sunrise” to “Notting Hill” as it follows the charming Dom (David Jonsson) and the effervescent Yas (Vivian Oparah) as they walk and talk their way through South London after a meet-cute in a public bathroom.
Surprise! With “ Rye Lane,” Allen-Miller didn’t just make a rom-com, she made a great rom-com. I never really thought I would direct a rom-com,” the director told IndieWire during a recent interview. One thing she didn’t consider? “I can tell you that it wouldn’t have been a rom-com. It would be set in her own stomping grounds of South London, and it definitely had to be funny. When filmmaker Raine Allen-Miller pictured her debut film, she had a few ideas she couldn’t shake.
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