Notting Hill (1999)
Directed by Roger
Michell this film from writer Richard Curtis stars Julia Roberts and
Hugh Grant. A recently divorced owner of a book shop that specialises
in travel books meets and fails in love with a big film star.
Nothing about this
film is revolutionary or evolutionary either in terms of being a
genre piece or the work of Richard Curtis but it does what it sets
out to do. There is plenty of humour in this film that helps carry
the film and Rhys Ifans does a pretty good job of stealing every
scene he is in as well as nearly the entire film. Richard Curtis very
much sticks to the world he knows when writing this film which is
both a strength and a weakness as at times there are one or two
scenes that do come off a little like middle class people whining
about first world problems.
4/5
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