Ready For Love
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Dylan Pasture, Lauren McCune
Genres: documentary, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, tender
A character study built entirely from years of one woman's audition tapes to The Bachelor, charting how her optimism, expectations, and family life shift across the attempts. The reality-TV machine grinds, the subject keeps performing herself.
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A doc built from rejected Bachelor tapes is the kind of subversion of TV-industrial slop I live for. It turns the casting room — the most cynical space in American media — into something accidentally autobiographical.
Feature-grade emotional arc assembled entirely from Bachelor audition tapes is a true found-footage achievement — Sherman's March courting ABC is exactly the unsettling distillation reality-TV deserves. Top tier.
A feature-grade emotional arc assembled entirely from years of one woman's Bachelor audition tapes is a genuinely original documentary architecture. Sherman's March via ABC is the precise lineage and the conceit does the character work.
Reviews
Told entirely through audition tapes sent into the popular TV show, 'Ready for Love,' is a profound character study of our times, funny but also surprisingly heartbreaking.