(500) Days Of Summer is the new love story that claims from the outset that it is not a love story. Expecting the usual run of the mill rom-com I was pleasantly surprised at what unfolded as a real life rom-com including all the bad bits of a relationship as well as the good. The story follows the sad sack life of Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a man who wanted to be an architect but finds himself writing greeting cards for a living as he first sets eyes on Summer (Zooey Deschanel), the woman who he believes to be 'the one' and so we begin the 500 days of their relationship.

The trouble is Summer may not want the same things in life as Tom. Tom is the hopeless romantic who sees love at first sight, Summer enjoys fun times and love has not yet come knocking at her door. Their affair starts off fun and light with them dating and enjoying fun times together. Throughout the film we flash forward to after things have taken a dive with Tom trying to make sense of what has happened with the comfort of his close buddies who provide some great comic moments. He becomes a broken man and sets about trying everything he can think of to win her back. It is here that the movie works so well as we have all experienced the feeling of being in love with someone who just doesn't feel the same magic in return. It's an honest romantic movie with a few laughs thrown in to lighten the mood.

What we leave the cinema with is that just as it is quite easy to misinterpret the meaning of a film (as Tom does during the opening credits) or song it is also easy to misinterpret love. Love will always turn up unexpectedly and without warning.