Love Actually (2003)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney
Synopsis:
A diverse group of characters with little immediately obvious connection with each other all experience love as Christmas approaches.
Review:
Apparently conceived as a party piece to reunite its writer-director's stock characters and situations in time for the yuletide box office comes over in hindsight as a cynical marketing exercise. The Four Weddings/Notting Hill formula, necessarily diluted due to the multi-layered format, allows this time for only the most jejune of characterizations and the dramas lose any weight they would have had - had it not been for their irredeemable unreality and poverty of taste - through the self-conscious reduction of every scene to a soundbite punchline.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney
Synopsis:
A diverse group of characters with little immediately obvious connection with each other all experience love as Christmas approaches.
Review:
Apparently conceived as a party piece to reunite its writer-director's stock characters and situations in time for the yuletide box office comes over in hindsight as a cynical marketing exercise. The Four Weddings/Notting Hill formula, necessarily diluted due to the multi-layered format, allows this time for only the most jejune of characterizations and the dramas lose any weight they would have had - had it not been for their irredeemable unreality and poverty of taste - through the self-conscious reduction of every scene to a soundbite punchline.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 135m
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Rory MacGregor, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney
Synopsis:
A diverse group of characters with little immediately obvious connection with each other all experience love as Christmas approaches.
Review:
Apparently conceived as a party piece to reunite its writer-director's stock characters and situations in time for the yuletide box office comes over in hindsight as a cynical marketing exercise. The Four Weddings/Notting Hill formula, necessarily diluted due to the multi-layered format, allows this time for only the most jejune of characterizations and the dramas lose any weight they would have had - had it not been for their irredeemable unreality and poverty of taste - through the self-conscious reduction of every scene to a soundbite punchline.