Posted: July 30, 2014 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Summer’s Tale, Aaron Fernandez Lesur, Adam Levine, Adriana Paz, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin, Begin Again, Blaise Pascal, Catherine Keener, Eric Rohmer, Gwenaelle Simon, Hailee Steinfeld, James Cordon, John Carney, Keira Knightley, Kristyan Ferrer, Marc Ruffalo, Melvil Poupaud, Once, The Empty Hours | 1,151 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
Ah, love. You can’t eat it, but without it, you’ll starve. You can’t drink it, but without it, you’ll never feel quenched. You can’t wear it, but without it, you feel naked. You can’t sleep under its roof, but without it you’ll feel homeless.
And when it comes to love and war, well, let’s face it, love is the more universal language (why else do you think Shakespeare in the Big L won the Oscar over Saving Private Ryan?).
A few films have opened lately that explore the idea of love (and in once case amor and in another case amour), or more accurately, how absolutely awful and moronic we are at it. Perhaps one of the themes that connects all three movies is reflected in Hal David’s lyrics from the musical Promises, Promises, “So for at least until tomorrow/I’ll never fall in love again”.
Whether, then, these stories are comedies or tragedies (or both) is up to you.
Okay, enough of the poetry crap. Or as Ewan McGregor’s character says in I Love You Phillip Morris: Enough romance, let’s fuck. Read the rest of this entry »
