Down with Love

Down with Love - To hell with love! ( Original title: Down with Love ) is a romantic comedy by director Peyton Reed from 2003 starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the lead roles.

Action

The place of action is New York in 1962. The young author Barbara Novak comes from New England here to publish her ​​book " Down With Love ". Therein it is important that women can only be independent if they unlearn the love. But the men of the publisher " Banner House " does not want to publish this book. Therefore neither Barbara and her editor Vicky the fight for " Down With Love ". Even quite successful, because suddenly feel the New York women about this book as a medium, a gang that causes them to break away from the domination of their husbands. Even the men from the board of the publisher are not immune. The book "Down with Love " takes the world by storm.

The success of the book, which is completely opposite to his way of life, but can the journalist and undisputed womanizer Catcher Block - heartthrob, men swarm, swarm all over the city - not put up with it and brings out a counter-attack. He wants to shy astronaut disguised as Zip, stalking Barbara and prove that they are also in love and not a " Down With Love " woman. Catcher This can prove to be brilliant journalist continue to prove and maybe even clear up another Pulitzer. As much as Barbara defends against Catcher block advances, a romantic entanglement is inevitable.

In the end, the truth comes to light. It also turns out that Barbara Novak emerges as an innocent girl Nancy Brown of Maine, as a completely different person than they should. Nancy was a secretary a year earlier for three and a half weeks Catchers and was treated by him. She has written her book just to get Catcher Block to to fall in love through his efforts even in it. Meanwhile her but was aware that she has become through the development to the woman that she has actually only played, and establishes its own ( women's magazines - ) publishing. Only after some effort find them and Catcher Block still together and get married.

Criticism

" A pays homage with candy colors and exaggerated ambience the 1960s romantic comedy that achieved with flat iconography and misslungenem timing neither the charm nor the comedy of the desired screwball comedies. "

"Both Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger provide in this nice and entertaining comedy from a great performance. In particular, the excessive 60's style gives the film its own, nice to seeing, flair. "

" " Down with Love " is a wonderful tribute to the golden age of classic Doris Day - Rock Hudson comedy: In Technicolor retro look of the " post- modern "Comedy of sechzige years staged Peyton Reed ( " Bring It On " ) Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor as a new unequal dream couple of the presence [ ... ] "

Awards

The film was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award in two categories.

Background

The film will undoubtedly be considered as homage to the successful 60s movies with Doris Day and Rock Hudson (eg Lover Come two).

The plot is based on classic elements of those films that completely taken over, caricatured and be taken to the extreme:

  • The female lead ( Day / Zellweger ) falls in love with the heartthrob (Hudson / McGregor )
  • Actually, both can not stand
  • He plays the unsuspecting and your nice guy in front to win your heart
  • The neurotic friend ( Randall / Hyde Pierce), the male lead, is also trying to assert

Particularly noteworthy are the Features of the respective units, which act extremely generous with their pomp, their technical equipment and their size even by today's standards. Also, the clothes that were really modeled well and contribute a large part to capture the naive mood and social development of the early 60s.

Tony Randall, always in third place in league Day / Hudson, also in a Supporting Role occurs.

2003 in film Screenplay Bruce Cohen Dan Jinks Film score Marc Shaiman Jeff Cronenweth Ivana Miličević Bring It On (film)
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