The Romantics (Film)

Daniela Taplin Lundberg Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd

The Romantics is an American film from 2010 by director Galt Niederhoffer, who also wrote the script to do so. It is based on the novel of the same in 2008, which also comes from her pen.

The film was premiered in the United States on 24 January 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival, in German-speaking drama appeared straight to DVD on 23 June 2011.

Action

The wedding of Lila in her parents' home in Long Beach is the occasion of the re- encounter the old college gang. Tripler and her husband Pete, and the engaged couple Jake and Weesie have already arrived, only Laura travels alone on. She tries her nervousness on the upcoming speech to push as maid of honor her best friend Lila, but Tripler seems to know the real reason. At the wedding rehearsal in the afternoon reinforced Laura awkwardness of, in particular, they tried to avoid eye contact and personal conversations with the Bridegroom Tom.

The wedding shower designed not only as a traditional big family dinner with many, often inappropriate dinner speeches, but also as a boozy reunion party of the clique, formerly " The Romantics " was called. Only Lila wants to spend wedding eve without bridegroom to evoke no evil. Small signs that her groom might still have deeper feelings for Laura, his ex from the college years, she adamantly ignored.

Tom on the other hand wants to celebrate his bachelor party and has fun with his old friends at the nearby beach. After they have compared their earlier dreams with their current life situations more or less, Tom invites everyone to swim and disappears shortly afterwards without a trace. For those looking they split into couples on, Laura is accompanied by Lilas smaller brother chip, but soon he's too drunk to even walk upright can.

While the other four in partner swapping in vain searching the house and guest house for Tom, Laura finds the missing groom on the beach. Tom is now trying to finally want to explain why he has suddenly left and Laura years ago without any explanation, although he was so deep, inspiring love for them entertained. Although she is deeply disappointed and hurt, Laura can no longer suppress their true feelings and can be converted back at him.

The next morning she is tormented by guilt, so she finally confesses her best friend the truth about the affair with Tom. Lila, however, is firmly determined that nothing and nobody can prevent their marriage, it shall consider the admission of guilt as figment of a jealous Rejected. Now the decision is up to Tom, whether the marriage will take place or not.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing company manufactured the synchronous Scalamedia from Munich Unterhaching to the dialog book wrote Tobias Neumann and dialogue directed by Katrin Fröhlich.

Criticism

" The Romantics is to criticize because of the dubious events. Through this strange friendship constellation, it is difficult as a spectator, come along here. Great actors save this drama but on a solid level. "

" The Romantics convinced with crisp, fresh dialogues, good-humored, and cast an unusual finale, but suffers a bit on the lame drama. "

" ... A novel of course ( are ) very different resources available and this dominates Niederhoffer may, as a director, however, it lacks the necessary sense to initiate and build their characters. Their wives are quäkig, bitchy, complex offsetting, their men are silty, immature and so bored how boring. As would offer true enough superficialities, which Niederhoffer could arise and shine through in the course of the story, but this lacks not only the time to three couples and eight individuals ( Lilas taugenichtsigen brother counted) abzuhandeln appropriate, it lacks also easy on the necessary timing, the feeling for the right moment to tackle the characters accordingly. "

2010 in film Screenplay Film score Jeremy Strong (actor) Long Beach, California Giuliana Jakobeit Timmo Niesner Candice Bergen
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