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Added 2022-03-23 06:07:45 +0000 UTCName your favorite love story in movies and why.
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davis376 .
2024-08-21 01:30:58 +0000 UTC"A Little Romance" from 1979. It was Diane Lane's first film. It was a lighthearted, sweet, and funny romantic comedy that was filmed in Paris and Venice. I despise romantic comedies today because of all the tropes. This one didn't have them.
Brian Wright
2022-03-26 01:40:14 +0000 UTCI absolutely would have said this but I talk about La La Land so much on here, I figured I'd give it a break. So thanks for doing my job for me.
Tyler Shobe
2022-03-23 20:12:15 +0000 UTCJesse and Celine in the Before trilogy. There have been plenty of romantic films that have shown two people undergo the spark of a new connection being made, feel the disappointments of past mistakes while holding out hope for the future, and navigate the tensions of a marriage that is being worn down by the very rapport that formed it, but none have been made with the kind of simple, real-time intimacy as Richard Linklater’s series of films. In each successive entry, which overall spans 18 years, we watch Jesse and Celine develop a relationship, the state of which is reflective of where they are in their own lives—from their idealistic 20s to their bittersweet 40s. Linklater, far more engagingly than in Boyhood, shows the transformative nature of time on individuals, how people change over the years so gradually and subtly as to feel invisible. And that love itself is not only a matter of timing, but about the experience—and acceptance—of the person going through life with you.
Bennett Oliver
2022-03-23 18:55:00 +0000 UTCMr. Grey (James Spader) & Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhall) in Secretary. People generally don't think of this film as a love story but it absolutely is. It really is about soul mates, those extremely rare moments in life when two people, who so perfectly need what the other can offer, get to meet and be together. Beautiful.
Ross Skilton
2022-03-23 18:42:50 +0000 UTCSebastian and Mia in La La Land. While at first it seems like a throwback to the old fashioned romances in Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films, it then takes a turn when Sebastian gets a job playing music he hates just to support Mia but she's concerned that he's giving up his life long dream of opening his jazz club. Then after the incredible dinner argument scene, she gives it all up after her less than successful play only for him to travel to the next state to tell her that a talent scout is interested in her. It's one of the rare romances where neither side is right or wrong and both go out of their ways to help each other which makes it tragic but profound that they can't be together. Then the final encounter five years later that includes a fantasy musical sequence showing what could've been if everything went their way and they stayed together ending with one last look and smile at each other as she leaves his club. Just perfect.
Wolfman Brandon
2022-03-23 16:02:23 +0000 UTCI know it’s pretty mainstream, and it’s weird writing about this without spoilers, but the love story between Taki and Mitsuha in Your Name is fantastic. Both characters are so sincere and brave, fighting literal cosmic forces to try and be together. They both function well as dual protagonists in the narrative because they have individual goals and individual emotional journeys. As a viewer, I am rooting for both of them to succeed AND end up together. They really get me laughing and crying for most of the runtime of Your Name.
Jared Angcanan
2022-03-23 15:33:02 +0000 UTCSarah and James in Children of a Lesser God. At a glance, it might seem like yet another retelling of the Cinderella story, just with the twist that this Cinderella is deaf. But to its great credit, it never goes that way. Neither of them come into the story looking for love. Their relationship is fraught with all sorts of issues, and those aren't blithely swept away in the usual Hollywood way. Even at the end, their "happily ever after" is just them working together on trying to find a way to live halfway in her world and halfway in his. And that's the most "happily ever after" most folks ever have.
Derek H.
2022-03-23 09:15:31 +0000 UTCI love how the relationship between Victoria and Julian in The Red Shoes explores the fragility of love. I feel like that’s something that isn’t examined much especially in modern romance movies. Maybe writers are scared of challenging audiences, but I struggle to think of a relationship that I’ve connected to more than that of Victoria and Julian. Even as someone who’s currently in love in a long term relationship, the choice between my career/passions and my love life is something is such a morally complex topic for me. And while other films explore this dilemma, they often feel a bit cliché in their execution. I feel like the Red Shoes gets to the core of how it can destroy you in a very unique way. That final act is just devastating.
Jackson Littlewood
2022-03-23 08:43:57 +0000 UTCI find the relationship between Alma and Reynolds in Phantom Thread delightfully twisted. It's far from healthy but there's a real tenderness there that I really love. And I love that the way they meet it over a seductive breakfast order. Reynolds also has a Mr Grey sexual dominance at times but in a way that's actually sexy. And Alma also has this determination to make it work when it doesn't that I also really love. They're certainly not classically romantic but I do love their love even if I know it's not good for them.
Tyler Shobe
2022-03-23 08:06:00 +0000 UTC
