I am so so in love with Penelope Cruz.
This film is so much fun, with subject matter that could easily be turned into a dark brooding mess of a love story, but is made so light.
But is it purely because of the way it is shot, and it's location?
Or is it because of the impeccably acted characterisation, or the playful way it is narrated to make it almost seem like nothing but a short story told in pieces over broken conversation, or in the side column of a magazine?
She is searching, and knows exactly what she doesn't want, yet ends up being the one to fall completely into the most inadequate situation. She is the epitomy of a forced free spirit; she wants so badly to uphold the image of what she wants to be, she ends up conforming to what people already think of her.
She turns out to be the hopeless romantic; while a totally unlikeable character due to her annoying reliance on 'what is right', she is the quintessential chick flick heroine.
She is the the fire, the exemplification of love built on the foundations of passion and lust for one another. She is the free spirit, the ideal.
And for some reason, no matter how much of a cad he so obviously is...
YOU CANNOT HATE HIM. He is not charming, he is barely even likeable, but his honesty means the blame falls on the feeble over-emotionality of the women rather than his ability to play all of them.
This film is so much fun, with subject matter that could easily be turned into a dark brooding mess of a love story, but is made so light.
But is it purely because of the way it is shot, and it's location?
Or is it because of the impeccably acted characterisation, or the playful way it is narrated to make it almost seem like nothing but a short story told in pieces over broken conversation, or in the side column of a magazine?
She is searching, and knows exactly what she doesn't want, yet ends up being the one to fall completely into the most inadequate situation. She is the epitomy of a forced free spirit; she wants so badly to uphold the image of what she wants to be, she ends up conforming to what people already think of her.
She turns out to be the hopeless romantic; while a totally unlikeable character due to her annoying reliance on 'what is right', she is the quintessential chick flick heroine.
She is the the fire, the exemplification of love built on the foundations of passion and lust for one another. She is the free spirit, the ideal.
And for some reason, no matter how much of a cad he so obviously is...
YOU CANNOT HATE HIM. He is not charming, he is barely even likeable, but his honesty means the blame falls on the feeble over-emotionality of the women rather than his ability to play all of them.
