This movie is f marvelous and I think the key behind this history is the undeniable chemistry between Luce (Lena) and Rachel (Piper), they gave me goosebumps like all the time they were together. Beautiful characters and most of all beautiful history about love. if we are lucky enough we can truly live this once in a lifetime.
... View MoreAs I saw "Gray Matters", i know where this late stinker has found inspiration: it's the same plot (a lesbian love struck after wedding) but transplanted in the perfidy Albion. Sure, all the cards are shuffled as it's not exactly the same dynamic between the characters or the same ending. My judgment is that here, everything is better: the cast, the locations, the characters. Piper is a great torn newcomer, Ozymandias is a supportive husband and Queen Lena embodies perfectly responsibility. The American clichés are gone: bye bye the extravaganza (except than here the families are still upper class), bye bye the coming-out repentance. Here, it's more about feelings but at the end, for me, it remains still very implausible for me. In fact, this kind of movie hurt two fundamentals and i always failed to get into.First, if I really believe in love struck, I exclude it about orientation. In others word, i can't think that one morning, you get up and fell for the same sex, especially after you married the opposite. It's like saying that chicken has teeth, pigs can fly or an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object. Second, my faith is that the Yes Wedding is an unbreakable vow: i understand why marriage is often a religious affair: for me, if there's a something that can't be broken, it's that word. I don't say that marriage will be always heaven, but the vow is the way to find solutions when downs appears! So, it's really until death do part.
... View MoreEveryone has their guilty pleasures. Unfortunately for me, mine are the tasteless, cliché romantic comedies that Hollywood keeps churning out. Well that, and of course, Mean Girls. Imagine Me And You has just made it into my list of 'Guilty Pleasure Movies'. In this movie, a newlywed bride (Piper Perabo) becomes infatuated with another woman (Lena Headey), who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends. Then again the movie caption of "There goes the bride" and its poster is clearly misleading because one would assume that the bride runs off with someone else at the wedding itself. Nonetheless, no matter how cliché and boring the storyline is, it was a watchable movie.There was very little deliberate, calculated development to the storyline at all. I felt that the movie focused too much on the bride's problematic relationship with her husband, rather than her risky affair with Luce. So, by the end of the movie when she runs off looking for the woman she loves (spoiler: they end up happy together. Who would've guessed?), I hadn't known that her infatuation had already turned into a full blown romance. The writing was pretty lacking in that aspect, but it was an interesting romantic comedy anyway. Well, the whole idea of a married woman falling in love with someone else at her wedding is a little exhausted, but I guess the writer thought 'I know how to twist things around! Let's make them lesbians!'Alas, the soundtrack is predictable as well. Honestly, I would give the movie a 5.5/10, simply because of the effort at trying to make this movie less uninteresting and more marketable. Also because this is a very 'shark week' movie, movies whereby women cry along to once a month with a pint of ice cream. As much as it pains me to say this, I think I'll be joining that group of women.
... View MoreThis is one of the dullest films I have ever seen. It's a romantic comedy with little romance and little comedy.Rachel (Piper Perabo) is a young woman happily marrying her long-time boyfriend Hector (Matthew Goode). But at their wedding Rachel meets and starts to fall for Luce (Lena Headey), their lesbian florist. There's sexual tensions between them and Heck tries to figure out why his wife is becoming so distant. Rachel must then decide who she will stay with, Luce or Heck? This movie was SO boring. I don't think I've ever written a synopsis that short, and that's because NOTHING happens! Seriously, the majority of the movie is the characters doing mundane tasks like taking care of things at work, grocery shopping, and eating dinner. The main bonding moment was Luce teaching Rachel how to yell obscene insults at a soccer match. Just melts your heart doesn't it? They had little chemistry. I didn't care about either of them. I watched this film a few days ago and I could not remember EITHER of the characters' names when I was writing this; it was that boring and forgettable. We knew nothing about the characters. Luce was a florist, and a lesbian. Rachel was a closeted(?) lesbian married to a man. Honestly, the only person I really felt sympathetic towards was Hector! Also, it must be said that when the most sympathetic character in a lesbian film is a man I think you messed up. I mean, here's this sweet guy trying to bond with his wife and she's making out with the florist from their freaking WEDDING. Speaking of, there are only two small kissing scenes. It's a tame movie, and was only rated R because of homophobia. Imagine Me & You was so devoid of emotion, character and plot that I am truly baffled as to why some people consider this one of the "best" lesbian movies. It's a crap movie, and there's little to no passion or connection between the two women. The only interesting character was Rachel's eccentric little sister who was in all of three scenes. I'd much rather have watched a movie about her! There was also only about one or two chuckles in the whole movie. Yeah I'd skip this one. There are many better films, and better lesbian romances.
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