Review of Love Again (2023) by Mauro_Lanari — 27 Jun 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

What more could a singer who, according to "Forbes", in 2019 was the third richest female music artist in the world with an estimated wealth of 450 million dollars, want from existence? One woman that, according to "Rolling Stone"'s Keith Harris, "stands at the end of the chain of drastic devolution that goes Aretha-Whitney-Mariah with a bombastic and defiant sentimentality rather than demure and retiring"? At 55, she can talk about the death of her manager husband René, their 3 children, the new USA tour and export her role as a love coach from the lyrics of her pop ballads to the cinema debuting as an actress who dispenses invaluable, infallible, prodigious romantic advices. Her stage is planetary, so the pair of lovebirds must extend from the Bollywoodian East with Priyanka Chopra to the Hollywoodian West with Sam Heughan (who wears a "Pixies"'s tshirt), the story has to be basic (falling in love, crisis by omission of truth, reconciliation and triumphant happy ending), and the gay friend cannot be missing (in other times he would have been played by Rupert Everett or Stanley Tucci). Those who have really suffered mourning or emotional disappointments will not find anything sincerely comforting, but a gigantic mockery.