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Shana FesteKamera:
Andrew DunnBesetzung:
Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Catherine Rigby (mehr)Streaming (4)
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Basierend auf dem Roman von Scott Spencer, erzählt Regisseurin Shana Feste die Geschichte einer endlosen Liebe: Dass sich David und Jade im Sommer ihres High School Abschlusses Hals über Kopf ineinander verlieben, ist für Jades fürsorglichen Vater ein Dorn im Auge. Denn Hugh Butterfield hat die Zukunft seiner Tochter bereits geplant und erwartet, dass sie als erfolgreiche Ärztin in seine Fußstapfen tritt. Weit weg von zuhause, soll Jade ein Praktikum bei einem renommierten Arzt antreten. Doch entgegen der Erwartung ihres Vaters, entscheidet sich die junge Frau kurzfristig gegen diesen Karriereschritt, um so den Rest des Sommers mit ihrer großen Liebe verbringen zu können. Hugh Butterfield ist der Überzeugung, dass seine Tochter diesen unüberlegten Entschluss aufgrund von Davids schlechtem Einfluss gefasst hat, und setzt von nun an alles daran, um die Verliebten voneinander zu trennen. Gegen alle Widerstände hält Jade selbst dann zu David, als er mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt kommt ... denn das tut er nur aus Liebe zu ihr. Doch Missverständnisse, ein Unfall und Intrigen, die sogar ein dunkles Geheimnis aus Davids Vergangenheit enthüllen, stellen die junge Liebe von nun an auf eine harte Probe. (Universal Pictures Germany)
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A director with interesting potential. She still needs to make a couple more films and polish her craft a bit, but there are positive signs. The first sentimental and shallow half is not quite the real deal, and it is not because the protagonist looks like he's ten years older than he claims. It is because the dialogues are very drawn out and tedious. It may also be because Westerners express emotions a bit differently (or rather, about ten times more logically and illogically) than we do, so what seems over the top to us will surely be appreciated elsewhere. In the second half, the melodramatic outbursts begin, the family issues emerge, and the excellently written characters of Greenwood and Patrick come to life, their dialogues being some of the best you will see in the film. Which is a paradox when it's supposed to be a romance and the imaginary climax of the film is remorse over the death of a son and a dysfunctional family. It's a pity that it started so slowly, because the character of the cold surgeon is at least worth contemplating in the context of the contours of the real materialistic world vs the idealistic "true love and fuck the rest".
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Nothing more than a completely ordinary romance where two people fall in love with each other. She is an innocent little girl from a middle-class family, he is a handsome man from a lower class. They must overcome obstacles in order to eventually realize that they can overcome them together and live their fairytale, which simply must be beautiful at all costs.
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I might have some minor reservations, but overall it's a delightful romance that allowed me to daydream beautifully. I truly believed in the central couple's love here, plus they were both very pleasing to watch. When I take into account the great music, I don't care that I've seen it all before. And even if it's just a new cover of a story told a hundred times before, the resulting film can still have a greater impact than most of its predecessors. It just worked for me. (75%)
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