A film with the premise of a romantic relationship between an aspiring French chef and a British woman with a eating disorder sounds absurd enough to be the next Farrelly Brothers project. The pitch practically writes itself: he prepares haute cuisine, she vomits. If only he can find the right recipe, they might just cook up a little magic together. Meanwhile, the kooky elderly neighbor dispenses love and life advice while entertaining a string of gentleman callers as the would-be chef steals the ingredients for his elaborate meals from the restaurant owned by the man he suspects is his real father.
Posts Tagged ‘Romantic’
Delicious Review
Posted: July 16, 2014 in Drama, ReviewsTags: Bad Movies, Eating Disorder, Louise Brealey, Movies, Nicholas Rowe, Romantic, Tammy Riley-Smith
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Frequencies Review
Posted: June 15, 2014 in Reviews, Science FictionTags: Darren Paul Fisher, Movies, OXV: The Manual, Romantic, Sci Fi
For two-thirds of its 105-minute running time, Frequencies hums along, generating a pleasant buzz as a quirky romantic comedy, deserving of its self-comparison to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Inexplicably, the movie then abandons the central conceit of the story in a discordant third act that leaves it as less than the sum of its parts.
It’s a brave new world we find at the beginning of the film, where young schoolchildren don blindfolds to take a test that will determine their future. “Knowledge Determines Destiny” reads the placard on the school’s front door, but, in fact, it is one’s frequency that is the most important factor. (more…)
