This is a nice, romantic fantasy movie that I will keep and play again around Christmas time.
It has been truly well said that once we find love in life, the only other place we can fall in love again (at least for a little while) is at the movies. For an hour and a half or so we can feel with the characters ups and downs and, hopefully an up before the film ends.
This movie does just that in the tradition of modern romantic classics like Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail, there is the build-up as we see the characters come in contact, become seemingly impossibly seperated and make their way back together again.
The book that Sara signs her name in, "Love In The Time Of Cholera", is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and it's theme, which parallels the movie, is about lost love over time, distance and circumstance.
The cameos were great to see, Buck Henry, Molly Shannon, Eugene Levy and more were all bright spots in scenes they were in.
It must be realized when watching a movie like this that there is no time to show the resolution of every loose end as far as prior and current relationships. It is assumed that as the plot has managed to work things out, that situation has been or will be worked out in itself. The basic point of the movie is that there is one person fated for us, to settle for anyone else when there is a chance of being with the soul-mate is to cheat everyone involved. To be rejected before marrying is far to be preferred to living years in an unhappy marriage
Recommended, particularly as a Christmas treat.
It has been truly well said that once we find love in life, the only other place we can fall in love again (at least for a little while) is at the movies. For an hour and a half or so we can feel with the characters ups and downs and, hopefully an up before the film ends.
This movie does just that in the tradition of modern romantic classics like Sleepless In Seattle and You've Got Mail, there is the build-up as we see the characters come in contact, become seemingly impossibly seperated and make their way back together again.
The book that Sara signs her name in, "Love In The Time Of Cholera", is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and it's theme, which parallels the movie, is about lost love over time, distance and circumstance.
The cameos were great to see, Buck Henry, Molly Shannon, Eugene Levy and more were all bright spots in scenes they were in.
It must be realized when watching a movie like this that there is no time to show the resolution of every loose end as far as prior and current relationships. It is assumed that as the plot has managed to work things out, that situation has been or will be worked out in itself. The basic point of the movie is that there is one person fated for us, to settle for anyone else when there is a chance of being with the soul-mate is to cheat everyone involved. To be rejected before marrying is far to be preferred to living years in an unhappy marriage
Recommended, particularly as a Christmas treat.