Directed by:
Shana FesteCinematography:
Andrew DunnCast:
Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Catherine Rigby, Anna Enger Ritch (more)VOD (3)
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The film follows the story of David Axelrod (Alex Pettyfer) and Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde), a young couple who begin a passionate and heady relationship much to the chagrin of Jade's wealthy mother and father (Joely Richardson and Bruce Greenwood). Determined to find some dirt on his daughter's new squeeze, Hugh Butterfield investigates the young man's past and it isn't long before he finds he has a less than admirable background. Can the young lovers' relationship bear the attempts to split them up? (Universal Pictures UK)
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I might have some minor reservations, but overall it's a delightful romance that allowed me to daydream beautifully. I truly believed in the central couple's love here, plus they were both very pleasing to watch. When I take into account the great music, I don't care that I've seen it all before. And even if it's just a new cover of a story told a hundred times before, the resulting film can still have a greater impact than most of its predecessors. It just worked for me. (75%)
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A director with interesting potential. She still needs to make a couple more films and polish her craft a bit, but there are positive signs. The first sentimental and shallow half is not quite the real deal, and it is not because the protagonist looks like he's ten years older than he claims. It is because the dialogues are very drawn out and tedious. It may also be because Westerners express emotions a bit differently (or rather, about ten times more logically and illogically) than we do, so what seems over the top to us will surely be appreciated elsewhere. In the second half, the melodramatic outbursts begin, the family issues emerge, and the excellently written characters of Greenwood and Patrick come to life, their dialogues being some of the best you will see in the film. Which is a paradox when it's supposed to be a romance and the imaginary climax of the film is remorse over the death of a son and a dysfunctional family. It's a pity that it started so slowly, because the character of the cold surgeon is at least worth contemplating in the context of the contours of the real materialistic world vs the idealistic "true love and fuck the rest".
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Nothing more than a completely ordinary romance where two people fall in love with each other. She is an innocent little girl from a middle-class family, he is a handsome man from a lower class. They must overcome obstacles in order to eventually realize that they can overcome them together and live their fairytale, which simply must be beautiful at all costs.
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