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Film review – Letters to Juliet

The film ‘letters to Juliet’ is a romance story between am engaged couple, the women finding an old letter from Juliet Capulet’s Courtyard. Finding this letter, she writes to Claire, the person who wrote the letter, who receives an answer after 50 years. Claire, her grandson and Sophie, go on a journey to find Claire’s long lost first love. This film is a ***** rating as there is such a wetness about the characters, location, storyline, the feelings we as the audience is so real, because the performance is stunning.

This is a film about love, finding true love. I expected from the title, a romantic story. The word ‘Juliet’ is a sign that the film is about romance as we have the association with Romeo and Juliet from William Shakespeare. Italy is a place which is very much a place of love, you have loads of people visiting Italy, and Verona for honeymoons. The food, the countryside scenery, it’s a place of openness and love.

Every film as a story, and that story is the plot in which the audience can follow and understand the events in the lives of the characters, the landscape, and the audience too. If the plot is good, which ‘Letters to Juliet’ is, then the audience are drawn in and become part of the story, they think about experiences they have had, add their own interpretations and ideas making the film become more individual to them. For ‘Letters to Juliet’ Sophie and Victor are a couple, and have been engaged for a year. They come to Verona on a Honeymoon to spend time together. Sophie wants to write, and Victor has the dream of opening his own restaurant. Sophie and Victor go and visit Italy, Sophie goes to Juliet’s Capulet’s Courtyard and finds an old letter which has been hidden in the wall for 50 years. Sophie then writes back to Claire, and after 50 years, comes back with her grandson to find her Lorenzo. The 3 of them are swept away o a romantic journey which ends with a wedding and a Sophie falls in love with Eragon, Claire’s grandson. The lpot was simple to follow, and with the number of Lorenzo’s they find, it makes the story interesting when Claire have to decide which Lorenzo is her long-lost love.

I enjoyed the film so very much, you get a sense of time, with the history from the letter, and all the stories from the character’s past, Sophie losing her mum when she left when she was 9, then Eragon losing his parents when he was young, and seeing them at their age in the film, gives a sense of time passing. That there is a future. The idea that romance can never die, not matter how long a couple have been apart from each other, and love at first sight. Sophie and Eragon have a wonderful chemistry between them, trying to avoid their feelings for each other while Sophie is engaged, to have the courage to follow you heart and feelings when Sophie leaves Victor to be with Eragon. There are so many emotions felt by the characters and the audience which make this film so lovely. The small parts and reactions are lovely. like the part one the last night on their journey, Eragon walks Sophie to her room, the scene progresses, Sophie ends up standing in the inside of the door, with Eragon on the outside.