agneswallberg
In my opinion this movie is in the same league as the greatest of british romcoms. This is a warm and sincere romantic movie that captures that gorgeous feeling of falling in love.
o_jones-36395
Sadly a little too rom com for me. I believed the storyline but it was all a bit white-washed and sugar coated and minus the real depth that some classic rom coms can give you. Life isn't lived on the sugar puff that this film appears to be. Still, great to see a lesbian couple portrayed on screen, albeit in a slightly fluffy unrealistic world.
Dominic LeRose
Guys expecting to see lots of lesbian action are in for a surprise. Instead of an erotic comedy we see a heartwarming, beautiful, funny and fresh romantic comedy with a gifted script and sweet premise. Piper Perabo plays Rachel, a freshly married women in London who falls for Luce (the breathtakingly beautiful Lena Headey), the florist for her wedding. Their relationship starts as a casual friendship before finding out that they have a deep love for each other, which comes with challenges in order to develop a relationship. This movie has sappy written all over it. Surprisingly, writer and director Ol Parker skips through all the clichés and develops a story in which we care for the characters and experience a unique relationship develop throughout the course of the film. The performances are all sweet and funny, with each character not getting carried away with themselves or trying to be something they're not. Each actor is gifted with a humble performance and brings the very British-like script to life in a subtle and content fashion. This is the kind of movie you come into feeling ambiguous but leave feeling great. It's a terrific tale of a challenged love that never fights to be expressed.
Roedy Green
The characters in this film are good-looking, polite, rational and reasonably considerate. But they are also pretty bland. The plot is a bride gets a crush on her female florist, but is in denial it is a sexual attraction. She gets in too deep before she twigs.The plot proceeds a glacial pace because of the bride's ambivalence.The movie does not shy away from depicting the hurt her loving husband faces.The ending is corny to the max, with a happy ending for all, even the jilted husband. The ending just comes out of the blue without cause. Even a grandchild appears from some unknown womb to give the mother her fondest wish. It makes no sense.There is one scene that made me howl with laughter because it highlighted how utterly clueless the writer was about gay men. The married couple disturb two men having sex in a park at night. The two gay men then formally introduce themselves.The casting director favours a certain type of British man. I was often confused by which Cary Grant clone I was looking at.The movie treats a F-F couple as something highly exotic, shocking and unexpected. It is just not that big a deal anymore. I think the writer made up the screenplay out of his imagination of what he though it might be like to be a lesbian, not from the experiences of his lesbian friends. For example, Luce is extremely pretty and pleasant to be around, but has almost no friends.The music is great. It has big lush sound, lots of variety, melodious, fun.