An engaging, comedy about love gone wrong, '500 Days of Summer' is a lighthearted autopsy of strictly from the male point of view. The cleverly written screenplay and playful and intelligent rendering of the film, may not help you understand the girl, though you learn more than you want to about the boy.

Starring Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Fox Searchlight's comedy premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, confirming Deschanel as a charming and talented female lead, while pitching leading man status for Gordon-Levitt in Hollywood films.

Male-centric to the extreme, Summer (Deschanel) is an object of intense focus, as her boyfriend Tom (Gordon-Levitt) and his buddies Paul (Matthew Gray Gubler) and McKenzie (Geoffrey Arend), scrutinize every comment and gesture she makes. Summer, without being given a chance to argue her own case, is the sum total of every male's perception of her.

As the film opening declares, this is the story of a doomed love, we see in the 500 days of Summer, the latter dumping Tom, who endures the suffering, due to advice from his friends' and more helpfully that of Rachel (Chloe Grace Moretz), his wise little sister.

Tom, a trained architect, works as a greeting card writer, when his boss introduces him to his secretary Summer, newly arrived from Michigan . Tom is smitten by her and the film's highlight is the scene of Tom leaving for work after his first night with Summer. The world seems to be in love, everyone reacts with big smiles and high fives, as straight out of a Bollywood flick, a marching band joins in a celebratory dance number that continues till he is in front of the elevator at work.

Somewhat along the lines of Woody Allen's best comedy, 'Annie Hall', though not entirely as Allen's film tells us more about Annie and other things than love, '500 Days Of Summer', obsesses far too much about its heroine, never bothering to plumb her depths.

The film delivers a fair amount of laughs, as Gordon-Levitt brings the right amount of emotions and sensitivity to an otherwise awkward role, portraying a silly but sincere Tom, more in love with the idea of love than with Summer, well. As for Deschanel, she plays the role of Summer in a straightforward manner, who from the start says she is not looking for a serious relationship . Far from being a difficult woman, she can't figure out, why others don't understand, she just hasn't found what she's looking for, yet.

The film takes place in the revived downtown Los Angeles, which in a way resembles New York or San Francisco., as people walk to work, party on rooftops, catch the sunshine in urban parks and think nothing of hopping aboard a train, to make it to an out-of-town wedding.

A brilliant capturing of the city's skyline and street scenes meshes nicely with Tom's reawakened interest in architecture. '500 Days of Summer' with its bittersweet ending is pleasant viewing, often smart with observant laughs.