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Greta Gerwig is often relegated to playing supporting roles, but in Lola Versus, she's taking the lead as the title character, a woman who gets dumped by her fiancé (The Killing's Joel Kinnaman) while planning their wedding. Her BFFs (including Whitney's Zoe Lister-Jones) are ready to reintroduce Lola to the single life — even though it may be a little too soon. As she explores therapy, dating, and hooking up with new people, Lola tries to figure out who she is on her own, while uttering some pretty hilarious dialogue ("I'm power eating!").

I fell for this trailer right from the opening, when "Go Outside" by Cults starts up, to everything Lola's well-meaning friends say. It makes sense that Lister-Jones has some of the best lines — she wrote the film with Daryl Wein, and they're the same pair who wrote 2009's Breaking Upwards, which I loved. Gerwig also seems charming and relatable as Lola, so I can't wait to see how it all plays out when the movie is released on June 8. Let me know what you think when you watch the trailer after the jump.

Woody Allen has hit home runs with European-set films Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Match Point, and Midnight in Paris, but can he do it again in Italy? We'll have our answer with To Rome With Love, which follows another star-studded cast as their love lives get a little more complicated in — you guessed it — Rome. This time, the lineup includes Jesse Eisenberg as a guy who's seduced by his girlfriend's friend (Ellen Page), Penelope Cruz as an Italian prostitute, and Allen himself wearing some pants that are pulled up very high.

As with Midnight in Paris, it's obvious that the setting is going to be a major character here, which is enough of a reason for me to be enticed by the film. My only gripe is that Page seems a bit miscast as the boyfriend-stealing sexpot, but I can definitely see her and Eisenberg as a match. The movie hits theaters this June, but you can watch the trailer when you read more

Just in time for Valentine's Day comes the trailer for Damsels in Distress, which follows a group of college ladies determined to save depressed girls and set them on what they deem to be the right track. Greta Gerwig leads the pack, and Analeigh Tipton (who you may remember from Crazy, Stupid, Love) is the wide-eyed newbie that Gerwig and friends are determined to make over. This isn't your typical Mean Girls-style group though: the ladies seem genuinely interested in helping people (and also, there's tap dancing).

The preview is reminiscent of many movies we've seen before (Clueless immediately come to mind), but it's more deadpan and perhaps a bit deeper than those types of comedies. I'm not totally in love with Gerwig as the queen bee, but I am most definitely on board with Adam Brody as Tipton's off-limits love interest. I was also excited to see some familiar faces like Aubrey Plaza and The Office's Zach Woods added to the mix.

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Here's a couple I wasn't expecting to see as an onscreen pair: Orlando Bloom and Greta Gerwig are set to star in romantic comedy Lola Versus. Gerwig will play a woman whose fiancé (Bloom) dumps her right before their wedding, and she then embarks on an attempt to figure out who she is as a single woman before she reaches 30.

Zoe Lister Jones and Daryl Wein cowrote the screenplay, and are the same pair who wrote and starred in the bittersweet indie Breaking Upwards. Jones will also costar while Wein will direct.

Gerwig broke out in last year's indie Greenberg, but between Arthur and this new project, it sounds like she's ready to stick around the romantic comedy realm. With costars like Russell Brand and Orlando Bloom, I can't say I blame her.