Review of Letters to Juliet (2010) by Genevieve F — 06 Apr 2013

"Letters to Juliet" has become my all time favorite romance in part because of the story, the characters, the scenery, and the fact that this is a multi-generational love story.

Amanda Seyfried is becoming one of my favorite actresses and in this film she lights up the screen with her smile, her love, her disappointment and she moves you to feel for this young woman with an inattentive fiance who no doubt loves her but not as she wishes to be loved.

The other characters draw you in deeper to the story and into their respective lives and a guy who seems like a cad later comes to be quite sympathetic. There is the "inevitable" happy ending and yet it isn't jarring but very much welcomed.

Letters to Juliet is a gorgeous picture that stars the beautiful and vibrant Amanda Seyfried as fact checker Sophie who wants to be a writer and is engaged to a highly preoccupied, if not neglectful, chef.

They travel to Italy and stop in Verona where Sophie discovers the wall where letters to Juliet are placed.

She observes someone taking the letters and after following them does find a group of women dedicated to writing replies to the letters. Sophia discovers a letter from many decades before and is moved to write to the woman who wrote of failing to meet her loved one when she promised to. Later on, suddenly the grandson of that woman finds them and he is displeased with Sophie for having stirred up his grandmother, we see the beginning sparks of what will be an unexpected love match.

Sophia follows him when he leaves and then goes up to him and his grandmother and manages to introduce herself and ask to come on their road trip to find the grandmother's lost love. The road trip proves to be full of the unexpected but thankfully the end comes and the two lovers are happily reunited and Sophia leaves though having connected with the grandson and the two of them giving into the urge to kiss one another.

Sophie returns to an unfulfilling relationship with the chef then receives a wedding invitation and tells him that she is going on her own. When she arrives, she misunderstands the situation between her new beau and what turns out to be his cousin and they confront each other, she on a balcony and he on the ground.

She declares her love for him, he in turn declares his love for her and after he falls when trying to climb ivy to her, she comes to his side and they unite in a kiss that is observed initially by the newly married couple whom Sophie help to bring together. 10/10 A two tissue film.

Wow of the terrible reviews below, some of them are by women reviewers...maybe this film is a "Hollywood" film but it does have good actors in it, my favorites being Amanda and Vanessa.