The love story is sad, funny, and feels genuine enough, but the real pleasures of Super Sad True Love Story are in the details of the setting.

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Super Sad True Love Story portrays a predictably doomed love affair between a 38-year-old, death-obsessed, Russian-American Jew named Lenny Abramov and his much, much younger Korean-American girlfriend Eunice Park.

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Gainesbourg, most recently seen in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, infuses the song with qualities of Gondry's sad, surrealist love story.

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The sad part is, as much as we'd love to have this expensive, feature-filled set in the Engadget HD lounge, we still can't comprehend why this particular set got an award for its picture when it's not even 1080p.

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Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.

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Mother and son sing a sad goodbye, as Lycas and the page denounce the treachery of love.

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"I'm just sad to have been forced to decide between a career I loved and the family I love more, " he said.

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