Love, Rosie (Christian Ditter, 2014): Germany, UK

Reviewed by Mina Gilbertsson. Viewed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2015.

Love Rosie, takes place in England and partly Boston. Rosie Dunne (Lily Collins) and Alex Stewart (Sam Claflin) are best friends and has been inseparable since they were five years old. They tell each other everything and are there for each other through thick and thin.

Both of them share the same dream of studying abroad. She wants to study Hotel Management at Boston College while he wants to study Medicin at Harvard University. Two acceptance letters were sent to them, but as life gets in the way of things, Rosie stays at home while Alex moves across the Atlantic ocean.

Alex and Rosie’s relationship can easily be compared to marriage and brother and sisterhood. Ever since the drunken kiss at Rosie’s 18th birthday, they have always had that tention between them but always denied it because neither of them wants to risk their friendship. They both know subconsciously how they truly feel about each other but chooses to ignore it. Instead they date and marry other people and pretend that their feelings for each other never existed.

There are many relatable aspects that especially teenagers can relate to. The language is as if they are talking off camera rather than running lines, which gives the audience a sence of realism. As mentioned earlier in the review, the film highlights the fact that life does not turn out the way you plan it, which again also gives the audience a sense of realism.

Even though the film is a romantic comedy, it does not seem to fully pursue the standard storyline of the genre. It did not feel like every other rom-com where the life of the main character is some kind of fairytale. It was pure and real, but still had the fairytale endning.

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Published:
02.16.15 / 8pm
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Films, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2015