The most famous and tragic love story in literature – “Romeo and Juliet” – continues to bring new artistic fruits. So it is with the novel Letters to Juliet sisters Here AND Liz Friedman on which a pleasant comedy is based Letters to JulietNew York director’s latest work Gary Winick. Previously, the director was awarded Sundance Film Festival With director’s award For Tadpole is a young seducer from New York.
On Netflix from September 1, 2023.
Letters to Juliet, plot
Letters to Juliet repeats the love myth between two boys from rival families, Romeo and Juliet, but has disappeared in modern times. Young American journalist Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried), comes to Verona to accompany her boyfriend, alone cook I love wine and good foodGael Garcia Bernal), who wants to open a restaurant in New York. She soon joins a group of volunteers who respond to restless hearts around the world asking for love advice. Thanks to the accidental discovery of a letter written in 1957, Sophie unwittingly becomes the author of the author’s return to Italy. Claire Smith (gorgeous) Vanessa Redgrave), accompanied by his little nephew Christopher Egandetermined to find the love she lost in her youth.
Vanessa Redgrave and Amada Seyfried in Letters to Juliet.
This will be the starting point of a journey through the hills and vineyards, through magnificent local locations. In the footsteps of the past and at the same time the future. A quest that will bring sighs of love and news into the lives of both women.
Letters to Juliet, an exquisite comedy
The film is built on the classic plot of a sophisticated comedy. A skillful combination of typical Italian traditions and human feelings gives a pleasant, cheerful and thoughtful result. He is able to skillfully connect together scene after scene different parts of the story, either using the personal aspects of the main characters, or magnificent location (indoors and outdoors, among all this we remember Borgo Scopeto and Caparzo, where Brunello di Montalcino is staged), right up to the coveted finale that even less romantic audiences are waiting for. Nothing much to do: directors did in the USA are truly masters of the genre:
There are films in which the location becomes a character, says the director, if you grew up in New York on films Woody Allenthat’s what you really feel, and that’s the feeling that I get from this film and Italy, an extraordinary country where something goes in and out of you during the recitation… colors, buildings… it’s not. there is another such place in the world.
Letters to Juliet, an exquisite comedy
A film with beautiful photographs illuminated by the presence Vanessa Redgrave like Claire. Redgrave’s charm, her years, wrinkles, natural style and stage presence pervade the film. It is also a warning to many young actresses that elegance, craftsmanship and intensity of interpretation have more to do with serious work, inner depth and intelligence. The protagonists are smart and pretty, a group of actresses who answer letters in the back room of a restaurant, passionate and devoted keepers of many love secrets. It’s about Marina Massironi, Lydia Biondi, Milena Vukotic AND Louise De Santis.
Curiosity: It took three months of negotiations between the production and the municipality of Verona to close Juliet’s house for a short time and convince the local administration that this small sacrifice (only two days of closure for tourists) would bring long-term benefits. urgent tourist benefit.
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