Hi all, I've been on Ciao for a while but have only used it recently. It's a fab way to pass on expe...
Hi all, I've been on Ciao for a while but have only used it recently. It's a fab way to pass on experiences (my friends have long since stopped listening!). I'll have more time soon and intend to read & watch films so expect lots of reviews to come!
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I bought The Holiday on Play.com as it was part of their Christmas Cracker sale with not a whole lot of expectations. I'd seen trailers for it at the cinema, it seemed harmless and I like Kate Winslet so I thought I'd go for it. I must admit that I am glad that I did.
Now don't get me wrong, this is not a life-altering piece of cinematography that will have you soul-searching for days, but it is a little bit of romantic fun that is definitely one for a girls night in.
You are introduced to your two leading ladies; Iris, a quintessential English Rose who lives in a little cottage, works in a newspaper in London and oh yes, is hopelessly in love with her colleague Jasper who seems to like trampling on her heart. Then we have Amanda, a highly strung, highly successful movie trailer editor who lives in LA and is equally as unsuccessful with her love life. On a flight of fancy, both decide to switch homes for the holidays in order to escape their respective lonliness.
Inevtiably, their sojourns to the other side of the world brings them into contact with just the right people and after a few laughs and a few tears the film is wrapped up with a typically heart-warming ending (with a real you-go-girl moment for Iris thrown in!).
The Holiday speaks to anyone who has ever fallen for someone who hasn't fallen quite so hard in return, and as I said before is perfect for a girls night in with a bottle of vino. It isn't particulary profound and it doesn't have any clever or shocking twists, it does simply what it is made to do; entertain you for the couple of hours it is on and leave you all warm inside (although that may just be that bottle of vino I mentioned earlier!).
Take it for what it is and you will enjoy it!
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer,The Holidayis a lovable love story with all the ... more
Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy sinceSomething's Gotta Give), it all begins when two success...
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As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer,The Holidayis a lovable love story with all the ... more
Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy sinceSomething's Gotta Give), it all begins when two success...
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Meet Iris (Kate Winslet) and Amanda (Cameron Diaz), two women who couldn't be more ... more
different - one lives in a cosy English cottage, the other in a swanky Hollywood estate - but who are alike in their mutual bad luck with men.In desperate need of an esc...
Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe Amanda ... more
realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart find themselves in the exact same place. They meet onl...
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Advantages: Brilliant moral lesson to be earned out of the movie- MINUS the intense heavy and boring stuff! Disadvantages: Not as Romantic as I expected!
diamond_sparkles 22.06.2009 (15.07.2009)
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