Valentine’s Day is here, the day to make memes of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and also of share a special time with someone you love. Of course, it’s tempting to get punky and throw in anti-romantic recommendations for today, but deep down we’re soft-hearted, so let’s go with something more expected.
And, by the way, we fully enter some of the best romantic movies of all time. It is impossible to cover them all (although a good part can), and here we usually limit ourselves to three. However, we have found three absolutely different but extraordinary films that show the different ways of capturing love on screen. infallible.
‘The beast of my girl’ (‘Bringing Up Baby’, 1938)
Address: Howard Hawks. Distribution: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson.
One of the best examples of romantic comedy of all time, in which Howard Hawks shows his infallibility to make great movies of any genre (the quintessential Hollywood craftsman). Adding strange couples and the entanglement of the screwball comedy, making a carousel of fun that ends up moving you completely.
Also one of the key films by Cary Grant, who has already become a charismatic movie star that the public adores, and also by a Katharine Hepburn who steals your heart in a few seconds. A whirlwind unafraid to embrace the nonsense that remains exemplary in how to develop chemistry between couples.
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‘Orfeo’ (‘Orphée’, 1950)
Address: Jean Cocteau. Distribution: Jean Marais, Maria Casares, François Périer, Marie Déa, Edouard Dermithe.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved. It is the easiest lesson that can be drawn if you want to give the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice an optimistic touch. But Jean Cocteau was not easy, he was looking to do something much deeper, and he completely rethought the myth to also make an incredible portrait of the stubbornness and obsession that it ends up reflecting. interesting details about our relationship with death.
Cocteau once again employs his poetic surrealism, making one of the freest and most fascinating films, where romance is developed with interesting complexity. It’s captivating, mainly because of an incredible visual ingenuity that does the most with very little. The Frenchman makes the most complete work of him, competing head to head with ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for being his best movie.
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‘Happy Together’ (‘Chun gwong tsa sit’, 1997)
Address: Wong Kar-Wai. Distribution: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gregory Dayton, Chang Chen.
This review would not be complete without introducing something by Wong Kar-Wai, perhaps the definitive director when it comes to portraying the sensuality and passion contained on a movie screen, influential for an immense number of modern filmmakers (his traces can be seen from ‘ Moonlight’ to ‘Everything at once everywhere’). And although it would be logical to introduce ‘Wishing to love’ before, it is ‘Happy Together’ that seems to me really captivating.
Unusual and strange journey through Argentina through two lovers who can’t help but continually come together and part while trying to find themselves. A full Kar-Wai plunges us into an intense relationship with its unleashed and fresh editing, with its hypnotic way of narrating with images or its great direction of actors, bringing out the best in magnificent Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung.
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