Letters to Juliet (Review) is about Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) who travels to the beautiful Italy and finds out some women sticking out some pleading letters in hope that the Secretaries of Juliet (the unknown ghostwriters) will reply them. Not that it does not have any meaning. The idea of true love story is always interesting and tantalizing to make. It’s like it is a perpetual idea of perpetual love. Well, there is nothing special about this movie anyway. It’s just the romantic atmosphere is so thick that the audiences can feel it, but nothing more than that. The atmosphere itself comes out of the atmosphere of the place, not really of the scenes. The wall in which these women put their letters is the supposed wall where Romeo (the legendary characters of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) meets Juliet at midnight. They believe that the so-called Secretaries of Juliet will solve their love problema.T
True love never dies, doesn’t it? And Hollywood film industry will never stop making love films about the true love which never dies even though the life time is running out. Letters to Juliet is certainly one of those love romantic-comedy-dramas, which is produced by Summit Entertainment film production company, talking about waiting the long-lost love to appear once again to embrace it in an eternal relationship. Well, we have already got Love in the Time of Cholera (based on a book by Gabriel García Marquéz), but that is not enough, of course, without Hollywood making another one.
Sophie finds a very old letter from someone named Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and read it straightly right away. Determined to be the Secretary of Juliet for Claire, she tries to find the British woman and helps her. Fortunately she meets her grandson, Charlie (Christopher Egan), so her attemp is so much easier now. Together, the three of them look for someone named Lorenzo (Franco Nero) who is once Claire’s boyfriend before she leaves him in the past. Sophie herself has her own love problems anyway, with her fiancé Victor (Gael García Bernal) and when she becomes closer to Charlie.
The awkward thing is when we watch two very old persons walking their way to get together again after a very long long time. It just does not make sense in todays’ logic, does it? Even if it is “indeed” a true love, why bothering yourself to get hold of your long-lost love when you are already old and should have been relaxed about your present life?
True love never dies, doesn’t it? And Hollywood film industry will never stop making love films about the true love which never dies even though the life time is running out. Letters to Juliet is certainly one of those love romantic-comedy-dramas, which is produced by Summit Entertainment film production company, talking about waiting the long-lost love to appear once again to embrace it in an eternal relationship. Well, we have already got Love in the Time of Cholera (based on a book by Gabriel García Marquéz), but that is not enough, of course, without Hollywood making another one.
Sophie finds a very old letter from someone named Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) and read it straightly right away. Determined to be the Secretary of Juliet for Claire, she tries to find the British woman and helps her. Fortunately she meets her grandson, Charlie (Christopher Egan), so her attemp is so much easier now. Together, the three of them look for someone named Lorenzo (Franco Nero) who is once Claire’s boyfriend before she leaves him in the past. Sophie herself has her own love problems anyway, with her fiancé Victor (Gael García Bernal) and when she becomes closer to Charlie.
The awkward thing is when we watch two very old persons walking their way to get together again after a very long long time. It just does not make sense in todays’ logic, does it? Even if it is “indeed” a true love, why bothering yourself to get hold of your long-lost love when you are already old and should have been relaxed about your present life?
The good thing about this movie is the actors performing in it. Amanda Seyfriend is for sure as beautiful as usual and performs as well as she can. Vanessa Redgrave, who plays the grandma losing her true love, Claire, is amazing here. Looking at her eyes and weak body makes you put a pity on her. The disappointing one is Christopher Egan, he is not good here. It’s a romantic love film however. It indeed can fulfil your desire for romantic love story in a smooth narrative. Romantic love films fans may want to get the DVD in the film rental.
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