Paper Heart

In Paper Heart, comedienne Charlyne Yi takes it upon herself to investigate her own romantic anomie in a series of forcibly adorable interview segments with married couples, Tarot readers and Michael Cera. Calling the experience a documentary isn’t entirely accurate, as a scripted courtship with Cera (playing himself in repressed man-child excess) makes this as much a handheld art romp as an objective exercise in puppy love.

But sequences including a sobering interview with a gay New York couple inject much-needed substance into an overdose of post-Juno ironic detachment.

Sweet, rambling and flimsy, this pleasant examination on the frailty of human attraction might not reverse divorce statistics, but it does make for a delightful date-night alternative.