By now, you’ve probably seen Regé-Jean Page and Halle Bailey promoting their new romantic comedy, You, Me & Tuscany. They’re doing an all-out full court publicity press, with a big budget junket and making all the talk-show stops. It’s refreshing to see a studio invest so much in a Black-led romance that’s actually hitting theaters, not just streaming services, and the excitement for the title has been fun to witness. But despite the trailers showing a sun-drenched, algorithm-approved, blissful rom-com, You, Me & Tuscany has been burdened with the impossible task of saving an entire genre, namely Black-led romances. The film has been positioned as both escapist fantasy and cultural moment. It’s an Italian postcard romance that also quietly asks: who gets to be centered in love stories, and how radical is that centering, really?
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