If you have had enough of bombastic animation, shoot 'em ups, and comedy, "Letters to Juliet" is your answer to a movie where you walk out feeling good and romantic. The performances and humor are intelligent. The storyline is simple yet delightful. The scenery is so lush and breathtaking you feel like you are in Italy. It gets touching without getting maudlin. If you are selective moviegoer, then you will not be disappointed.
Amanda Seyfried may be only 24, but she acts so grown up in a world full of girls. As Sophie, a writer for the New Yorker, She and her boyfriend Victor (Gael Gabriel Bernal), an aspiring restaurateur, want to go on a pre-honeymoon trip to Italy. There, he opens up his restaurant, and she wanders around the countryside where women write out letters to four women who call themselves "Juliet" about their lost loves. All the letters are posted outside, and are taken down every day. Sophie takes the job as the fifth and youngest Juliet, and she finds a letter dated back from 50 years ago pushed inside the wall. She meets Vanessa Redgrave as Claire, who wrote that letter looking for her long lost Lorenzo, accompanied by her son Charlie (Christopher Egan). They look for every Lorenzo they can think of until they find the long lost Lorenzo at the end of the movie (Franco Nero, who is Redgrave's real-life current husband). They marry. Sophie drifts apart from Victor and leaves him behind and marries Charlie.
Break out the vino. Every once in a while amid the egotism of the box office, a small movie paves way that looks like no other movie. "Letters to Juliet" is the one.
Amanda Seyfried may be only 24, but she acts so grown up in a world full of girls. As Sophie, a writer for the New Yorker, She and her boyfriend Victor (Gael Gabriel Bernal), an aspiring restaurateur, want to go on a pre-honeymoon trip to Italy. There, he opens up his restaurant, and she wanders around the countryside where women write out letters to four women who call themselves "Juliet" about their lost loves. All the letters are posted outside, and are taken down every day. Sophie takes the job as the fifth and youngest Juliet, and she finds a letter dated back from 50 years ago pushed inside the wall. She meets Vanessa Redgrave as Claire, who wrote that letter looking for her long lost Lorenzo, accompanied by her son Charlie (Christopher Egan). They look for every Lorenzo they can think of until they find the long lost Lorenzo at the end of the movie (Franco Nero, who is Redgrave's real-life current husband). They marry. Sophie drifts apart from Victor and leaves him behind and marries Charlie.
Break out the vino. Every once in a while amid the egotism of the box office, a small movie paves way that looks like no other movie. "Letters to Juliet" is the one.