Notting Hill (1999)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 124m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Rhys Ifans
Synopsis:
A divorced bookseller in a gentrified Notting Hill accidentally meets a beautiful American film star and they both grapple with the implications of fame and notoriety.
Review:
Many of the ingredients of Four Weddings and a Funeral, not least the circle of friends, are recycled to considerable commercial success. It makes for pleasant entertainment of a fairly lazy variety; its attempts to reprise the moments of pathos of its predecessor are as embarrassing as the similarity of a certain plot episode to Grant's own recent exploits, and Roberts's transformation from egotist career girl to open-faced ingénue is unconvincing.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 124m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Rhys Ifans
Synopsis:
A divorced bookseller in a gentrified Notting Hill accidentally meets a beautiful American film star and they both grapple with the implications of fame and notoriety.
Review:
Many of the ingredients of Four Weddings and a Funeral, not least the circle of friends, are recycled to considerable commercial success. It makes for pleasant entertainment of a fairly lazy variety; its attempts to reprise the moments of pathos of its predecessor are as embarrassing as the similarity of a certain plot episode to Grant's own recent exploits, and Roberts's transformation from egotist career girl to open-faced ingénue is unconvincing.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col 124m
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Rhys Ifans
Synopsis:
A divorced bookseller in a gentrified Notting Hill accidentally meets a beautiful American film star and they both grapple with the implications of fame and notoriety.
Review:
Many of the ingredients of Four Weddings and a Funeral, not least the circle of friends, are recycled to considerable commercial success. It makes for pleasant entertainment of a fairly lazy variety; its attempts to reprise the moments of pathos of its predecessor are as embarrassing as the similarity of a certain plot episode to Grant's own recent exploits, and Roberts's transformation from egotist career girl to open-faced ingénue is unconvincing.