Insights from the Cinematic World: love

About Time

Universal Pictures presents—in association with Relativity Media—a Working Title production: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy in About Time, starring Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie. The casting is by Fiona Weir, and the music is by Nick Laird-Clowes.

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Charlie Countryman

The story really kicks off in Bucharest Romania, where Charlie (Shia LeBeouf) meets Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood), who is also struck by the recent loss of her father. However, it’s love at first sight for Charlie, who is in a wild, unknown world, more foreign than he ever could have imagined.

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Romeo and Juliet

This version of “Romeo and Juliet” began with producer Ileen Maisel, who felt that the current generation had not been exposed to a more traditional, romantic vision of the play and might enjoy sumptuous locations, costumes and production design, along with the timeless tale of young love, deception, intrigue, death and redemption.

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The Smurfs 2

In this sequel to the family blockbuster comedy The Smurfs, the evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence.

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Peeples

Lionsgate’s and 34th Street Film’s winning comedy tells the story of Wade Walker and Grace Peeples, a happily cohabitating couple who are deeply in love, except for one catch: after one year together, Grace still hasn’t introduced Wade to her discerning, upper-crust family.

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To the Wonder

Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated Terrence Malick, To the Wonder is a romantic drama about men and women grappling with love and its many phases and seasons — passion, sympathy, obligation, sorrow and indecision

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Upside Down

Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess star in Upside Down, an interplanetary dystopian romance about a young man’s search for the long-lost girl of his dreams. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Juan Solanas and set in twinned worlds with opposite gravities, the film puts an eye-popping, original twist on the classic tale of forbidden love.

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Vamps

Clueless director Amy Heckerling and star Alicia Silverstone reunite in Vamps, a cheeky, fresh comedy about two eternally young party girls navigating the dating world in the Big City

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Anna Karenina

The enduring power of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina is summed up by Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright’s bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard.

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The Words

“Fuller. Truer. More honest.” Hearing a succinct validation of the words unfolding his heart-rending tale of love and loss from the woman he loved, trumped the moral conundrum that lay in wait. The romantic drama THE WORDS explores the devastating consequences when ambition is valued above love.

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Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris is an American and Spanish romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is produced by Spanish group Mediapro and Allen’s Gravier Productions, and stars Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni and Adrien Brody.

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