Dear Love:” Letters to Juliet(2010)” movie review
- Ezekiel Amor
- Aug 7, 2016
- 2 min read
Watching LETTERS TO JULIET(2010) by Tim Sullivan and Jose Rivera, for the second time enlightened me more about the elements that are patent on the film. When I first saw the film , the story line was really engrossing. It offered a teen-oriented love story that has the right thinness to it for general viewing. However, upon seeing it again I’ve noticed some elements on the film that acted more like fillers than to dig deeper in the story line.
The film talks of love and right timing emphasizing on how love needed the right amount of patience, and the choices you make. With this message, the film covered the principles making it seem as if the sequences reflected destiny with the story of Sophie Hall (Amanda Seyfried), a fact-checker in New York city that has a very bubbly and submissive personality; and how she accidentally met Claire(Vanessa Redgrave), a widow who wrote a letter to the “secretaries of Juliet” in Veronica 40 years ago about the love of her life that she lost when she chose to obey her parents and study abroad. Through Sophie’s fiancée Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) a huge fan of European culture, Sophie and Victor went to Veronica for a supposed “honeymoon” vacation. In the middle of their stay in Veronica, Sophie finds herself getting left behind by her fiancée and accidentally meeting the “secretaries of Juliet” which gave her the opportunity to write as one of the Secretaries of Juliet. She then discovers a 40-year-old letter written by Claire, setting herself on a journey of finding Claire’s long lost love.
The movie’s overall cinematography was on average compared to other films who competed at Tribeca Film Festival, 2010 layered by the soundtrack of Taylor Swift’s Love story that doesn’t have any relation to the story. It lacked depth but remained faithful to it’s theme. Overall, LETTERS TO JULIET(2010) is a fine film, but is not really catchy for film enthusiast and matured viewers.
My overall grade for the film is 2 out of 5
