2023-12-01 10:42:27
“Love Actually” is the first production of Richard Curtis, a romantic Englishman to the core. The writer-director, then aged 47, may be a beginner behind the camera, but he is far from being an unknown. We owe to this great screenwriter “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, “Love at First Sight in Notting Hill” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary”. It’s quite simple, Richard Curtis is the pope of English romantic comedy.
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“I wrote a lot regarding love,” he explains in the film’s notes. “I explored its workings, what thwarts it, what threatens it or gives rise to it. acquired a kind of experience, a certain approach to life. When I look around me, I first see people who are looking for each other, hoping for each other, chasing each other, tearing each other apart and sometimes, loving each other. C In my opinion, it is the main driving force of life, the most moving, the most powerful, the most human too. Being able to observe it, laugh regarding it and finally realize that no place is ideal, helps people to feel less alone, less fragile and much more joyful”.
This is perhaps the secret of Richard Curtis: sticking to reality. Because all these love stories have their counterpart of sadness, fear, uncertainties, habits, pettiness.
For “Love Actually”, he chooses ten patchwork stories in a given time, a few weeks before Christmas. The principle of simultaneity takes on an incredible and sometimes frustrating dimension here because all the characters are endearing.
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For the new British Prime Minister David (Hugh Grant), love takes the form of a pretty colleague, Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). But it’s difficult to be in love when you’re at the head of a country.
Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually” in 2003. [Working Title Films / DNA Film – AFP]
For Jamie (Colin Firth), a heartbroken writer who has taken refuge in the South of France, he will emerge following a dip in a pond. And it doesn’t matter if neither he nor she speaks the other’s language.
Love pushes away Karen (Emma Thompson), a woman settled in life, when her husband Harry (Alan Rickman) thinks of another, especially since the mistress, Mia, is very enterprising.
Love hides behind pretenses when this best friend (Andrew Lincoln) would have preferred to be something other than the best man at the wedding of Juliet (Keira Knightley), the one he loves.
Andrew Lincoln opposite Keira Knightley in “Love Actually” in 2003. [Working Title Films / DNA Film – AFP]
For the widower Daniel (Liam Neeson) and his stepson, love becomes complicit and musical to seduce a little classmate and forget death.
Thomas Sangster et Liam Neeson dans “Love Actually”. [Archives du 7eme Art / Photo12 – AFP]
As for this woman who adores her colleague, she is torn by love for her schizophrenic brother who takes up too much space.
There still remains this dashing young Englishman who leaves to seduce in the United States or this couple of porn movie doubles who, while they keep their pose, naked in front of the cameras, talk to each other regarding love and the rock star on the return and his manager, lifelong friends who spend Christmas together.
Colin Frissell (Kris Marshall) leaves for the United States to find love in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [Archives du 7eme Art / Photo12 – AFP]
Love is the issue, but also the source of countless complications. On this Christmas Eve in London, these lives and these loves will cross paths, brush once morest each other, confront each other.
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