The One I Love
The One I Love
R | 22 August 2014 (USA)
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On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

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plangdon-48221

OK let's start this review with the fact that I strenuously avoid ANY film or book with the word 'Love' in it. The prospect of watching 1.5 hours of a Romcom fills me with dread and I always tell my wife should she feel the need to watch one to do so during the day when I am at work or out fishing...... ......however....I have no idea how I started watching this film but within 15 minutes was pretty much fascinated by the plot. Ignore the title folks - it's just a reference to the song used at the end.There are lots of reviews on here who say they won't ruin the end but I pride myself on guessing cunning and twisting ends and didn't let myself down with this one. But and it's a big BUT I had no idea what was going on up to that point. I'm not going to give you any of that quasi-intellectual pretentious claptrap that all the wannabe frustrated, film critics in here spout on about such as script structure, lighting and camera angles (blah blah blah) I'm simply going to say -Just watch it. I wager 30 minutes into it you stay until the end. A very clever and convincing film. I can't believe so few have actually seen it.

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ChEd Lugagne

If you go past the overall poor acting and flat dialogues, you get to a plot that might turn interesting. It actually managed to get me excited for a few minute, even if it was after a very long bored waiting for the pain to go. The characters are overly understanding, OK and chill with the whole situation. They even ask for more. You get so little attached to any of the characters that whatever happens is of little interest to you. Annoyment is also apparently the most they can feel and you would be probably less shocked by their behavior if they were teenagers, not a married couple. Some queues by the DP on his way to shoot the movie give away a part of the plot, luckily it's has no point in the end, as most other queues to a deeper meaning. In the end you get a poor Peter Pan story, a few nice shots (if you like trees and lens flare...) and the most expected, uninspired and badly brought over end you could find to this story. All this in the most convoluted package you could think off... It's sad, it was very close to a pretty good plot for a RomCom, but it doesn't get there. You end up wondering why they even bothered to make things so complicated... Bad enough to motivate my first written review on IMDb!

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punishmentpark

A nice poster, a terrible title, some actors I vaguely recognize who might be good, some good reviews, some bad reviews and a plot that would be reminiscent of the work of Spike Jonze. Well, okay, I'm game.The plot is nicely proportioned within the full length of the movie, though the twists and turns only come júst in time here and there. One could try to get lost in the sci-fi or fantasy (or something else? religious, even?) details of the story, but actually, it all seems pretty clearcut to me. Or worse, at the end of the film I didn't really care that much. The overly fabricated plot reminded me a bit of 'Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind', but that film has pizazz (no, not pizzas), great acting and... well, pizazz! Not that I totally disliked this attempt at romantic originality, but it was all a bit bland and aloof. The biggest, most obvious fail was Ethan1 crying out in the end how much he loved them being such romantic screw ups (or words to that extent)...... really?5 out of 10.

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SnoopyStyle

Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) are struggling as a couple after he cheated on her. The therapist (Ted Danson) sends them on a retreat. What starts out as a nice simple vacation takes a strange unexpected turn.It's hard to write a review about this movie without giving away the twist. It's a rather boring indie for the first 20 minutes. Then it takes the left turn and gets quirky fun real quick. It's great when the couple is trying to figure it out. It's pretty funny. It does drag a little after the initial turn. It goes into something deeper than a simple comedy.

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