Love, Rosie - forever maybe

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Movie
German title Love, Rosie - forever maybe
Original title Love, Rosie
Country of production Germany
United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Christian Ditter
script Juliette Towhidi
production Simon Brooks ,
Robert Kulzer
music Ralf Wengenmayr
camera Christian Rein
cut Tony Cranstoun
occupation

Love, Rosie - Forever Maybe (Original title: Love, Rosie ) is the film adaptation of the novel Forever Maybe (Original title: Where Rainbows end ) by the Irish writer Cecelia Ahern . The film opened in German cinemas on October 30, 2014.

action

Alex and Rosie have been best friends since childhood. On Rosie's 18th birthday things crackle between them, but they decide not to endanger their friendship and just stay friends. A little later, her school prom takes place, to which Alex appears with Bethany, with whom he is now together, and Rosie turns to Greg and sleeps with him, which has far-reaching consequences. Alex's plans for the future are that he wants to study medicine at Harvard University , and Rosie wants to study hotel management in Boston . But then the young woman finds out that she is pregnant. She keeps this knowledge to herself and influences Alex to start his studies at Harvard.

Rosie wants to put the baby up for adoption first, but then decides to keep it and names it Katie. She manages to build a future with her little daughter. Alex, on the other hand, enjoys his student life and becomes engaged to Sally. The contact between Rosie and Alex never breaks off during this time. Alex is also the godfather of Katie.

One day Greg shows up at Rosie's and now wants to take responsibility for his daughter. After initial difficulties, Rosie gives him a chance and they eventually get married. Alex's engagement, however, falls apart. At the funeral of Rosie's father Dennis, the two meet again and discover that they have strong feelings for each other. But now Rosie is married and so Alex drives back to the States. He writes Rosie that she deserves better than Greg. This ends up in Greg's hands, who removes it without Rosie knowing about it.

Then Alex reunites with Bethany while Greg and Rosie split up. Katie is now 12 years old. Rosie travels with her daughter and best friend Ruby to Alex's wedding to Bethany - and is determined to finally confess her love to Alex. Unfortunately she's a little late. Still, she puts her plan into action and tells him how she feels about him. After clearing a few obstacles, Alex and Rosie finally get together. Rosie has now built her own hotel.

production

Filming began in Toronto in early May 2013 and ended in Dublin in mid-July 2013 . The film is a Constantin Film production in collaboration with Canyon Creek Films and RD Film Productions.

criticism

The reviews of the film are mixed. At Rotten Tomatoes , only 30% of the reviews are positive, out of a total of 23 reviews. The average rating is 4.4 out of 10. The average rating on Metacritic is 46 out of 100 with a total of 5 reviews.

The film service ruled that the film was a “smoothly staged, touchingly funny love film”, the plot of which was “full of clichés and constructed moments”, but could compensate for this with the “charm of the main actors”. Martin Schwickert said in the Augsburger Allgemeine , Love, Rosie lives above all from the "freshness of its two main actors". They would give the “dusty instinctual dramaturgy youthful lightness.” The Cinema wrote that director Ditter “rarely succeeds in giving the characters emotional depth”, but it was admitted that this was “less due to him than to the shallow original”.

Filmstarts noted that it's not about "whether the protagonists can get together, but about what has to happen before the love penny finally falls". The film is "not exactly squeamish about issues such as abortion and child-rearing". The "not always cliché-free hurdles" made "the romantic fairy tale", according to kino.de, "occasionally get in touch with melodrama". The film emphasizes "many close and half-close shots [...] intimacy", whereby some "touching scenes" succeed, "which the viewer has to work patiently in the face of a continually delayed climax".

Epd Film awarded 3 out of 5 stars and praised Lily Collins as the joker "of this very conservative romantic comedy". The daughter of Phil Collins is "with her doe-like eyes reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn a lovely appearance", whose graceful clumsiness [...] lets forget the inadequacies of the script ".

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Start of shooting of Forever Maybe (Love, Rosie ) constantin-film.de. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  2. ^ Love, Rosie (2015). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved December 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Love, Rosie. Metacritic , accessed December 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe. film-dienst , accessed on December 12, 2014 (short review).
  5. ↑ Martin Schwickert: Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe: Hair sharp past happiness at augsburger-allgemeine.de, October 28, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe. Cinema , accessed December 12, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Staben: Love, Rosie - Maybe forever. Film releases , accessed December 12, 2014 .
  8. ↑ kob: Love, Rosie - forever maybe. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on December 12, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Review of Love, Rosie - Forever, maybe. epd Film (epd-film.de), accessed on April 27, 2015 .