Pattinson Becomes a Hugh Grant

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In The Drama, the uncomfortable but stimulating film by the Norwegian Kristoffer Borgli, Robert Pattinson updates and gives a somewhat cynical turn to a kind of performance that Hugh Grant institutionalized in the nineties: the romantic hero of scrambled fur and light stuttering, charmingly disastrous. After Four weddings and a funeral, this trope was set as a masculine ideal in comedy and romantic drama. Actors like Rhys Ifans and, above all, C…