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Romantic film -- overtly, so fanciful (4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

love story

'romantic film' is the definition.
(1970 romantic film)

'overtly so fanciful' is the wordplay.
'fanciful' indicates an anagram (a fanciful or silly ordering of the letters).
'overtly'+'so'='overtlyso'
'overtlyso' is an anagram of 'LOVE-STORY'.

(Other definitions for love story that I've seen before include "Romantic tale" , "amorous relation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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