In a few days, it will be 2022 Valentine’s Day, so I will send you a few love movies suitable for the festival in advance. The festival is not here, the film list is ahead.
Among them are “I’m Your Man”, which discusses the coexistence of human and robot couples in the age of intelligence; “The English Patient”, which transcends borders and morality in the era of war and chaos; and “Before Sunrise”, the most beautiful “one-night stand” talk show…
In romantic days, whether it is a young couple in love or a young partner who enjoys being single, you can find a movie that resonates with your emotions.
Note: The films are listed in the order of their release years from newest to oldest.
“I’m Your Man” (2021)
Director: Maria Schrader
Starring: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Henriette Richter-Röhl, Hans Löw
Synopsis: Archaeologist Alma, who works at the famous Pergamon Museum in Berlin, agrees to participate in an unusual experiment in order to receive research funding.
For three weeks, she’s living with Tom, a humanoid robot designed to be her ideal life partner.
The machine is designed in the form of a handsome human, and it is made for her happiness, but the bad life makes it impossible for her to enjoy a new relationship.
What to watch: “I’m your (male) person.” How would you react when the handsome sweet pet robot repeatedly said this to you?
Movies about robot companions, such as “Cyborg Girl”, “Blade Runner”, “Her”, “The Stepford Wives”, etc., were mostly told from a male perspective.
The film innovatively examines human understanding of love and the definition of a partner from a female perspective.
Now that we are constantly surrounded by algorithms, if we have a perfect robot partner customized according to our self-awareness, can we reap happy love? The film offers some interesting reflections.
The heroine Maren Eggert won the Silver Bear Award for Best Lead Actor at the Berlin Film Festival for this film. She is one of the most potential and talented actors in Germany at the moment.
British actor Dan Stevens (“Beauty and the Beast”) of “Downton Abbey” fame plays the “custom boyfriend” in the film.
He not only vividly interprets the texture of the robot, but also speaks fluent German throughout, and is willing to do anything for the “hostess”.
“On Body and Soul” (2017)
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Starring: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Zoltán Schneider, Ervin Nagy, Tamás Jordán
Synopsis: Endre works as a financial director in a slaughterhouse. He has no friends or lovers, and has long been used to a lonely life.
One day, a new quality inspector named Mária came to Endre’s slaughterhouse. Although Endre thought he was introverted enough, Mária was more “social” than him.
Over time, Mária gradually attracted Endre’s attention, because the seemingly estranged two kept a secret together – every night, they would have the same dream, and the existence of this secret gradually brought them closer. distance.
What to watch: Can you fall in love even in a dream?
In “On Body and Soul”, a man and a woman with personality disorder gradually approach each other because of the connection of their dreams. They have the same dream every night, and in the dream they turn into two deer and communicate with each other.
Before the body finds each other, each other’s souls have long known each other.
Through such a strange and mysterious way of dreaming, the film connects the two characters together.
The wonderful mixture and imagination of soul and body are unexpected, and the overall style is both literary and eccentric.
“45 Years” (2015)
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells, David Sibley
Synopsis: The film tells the story of Kate Mercer and her husband’s 45th wedding anniversary when an unexpected letter pushes their marriage into a dilemma.
What to watch: The 45th wedding anniversary, the anniversary of the sapphire wedding, the two old people who have gone through ups and downs together, the seemingly happy and enviable marriage ushered in a heavy blow in their later years.
The truth and lies, understanding and betrayal in marriage are vividly presented in the film.
After watching this film, some people may shake their firm belief in love, but in fact, for most of us, it may be difficult for most of us to understand the answer to the complex factors mixed in love and marriage.
Focusing on the real pain points in marriage, the film explores the emotions of a middle-class marriage crisis.
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, two veteran European movie stars, contributed superb and delicate performances and won the Best Actor and Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival that year.
“The English Patient” (1996)
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
Synopsis: During World War II, a British plane was shot down by the Germans while flying over the Sahara Desert. The pilot on the plane was completely burned to the face. The locals rescued him and sent him to the Allied field hospital.
Due to the injury, the pilot lost his memory and could not remember who he was, so he was called The English Patient.
Nurse Hana decided to stay alone to take care of him. The English Patient lay quietly on the wooden bed in the room. An old book by the window gradually aroused his thoughts, and a love that spanned time and space slowly unfolded.
What to watch: One is a handsome and handsome single archaeologist, and the other is a beautiful and elegant married woman. In the turbulent era of frequent wars, because of love, she betrayed her marriage, and he betrayed his motherland.
In the vast ocean of yellow sand, a love that transcends national borders and morals, an extramarital affair that betrays one’s identity, forgets all labels but is loyal to love, is touching but also controversial.
The heroine Katharine wrote in her diary, “Although we die, we are full of love and experience.” Love makes time and space become eternal, and makes everything irrelevant except each other.
In the face of love, everyone is a “patient”, not only “Britain”.
“Sense and Sensibility” (1995)
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Tom Wilkinson
Synopsis: The film tells that after the death of a British manor owner, because the inheritance law stipulates that the family property is only passed on to males and not females, his daughters are facing the fate of being wiped out, and marrying a good husband has become their urgent need.
For the happiness of the whole family, the eldest daughter deeply hides her children’s personal feelings, and the younger daughter is willing to pay for the pursuit of love. In the end, both “reason” and “emotion” get true love.
What to watch: In the face of love, choose to use rational guidance or emotional management?
Two sisters with very different personalities, the older sister is mature and stable, but she can’t open her mouth when she wants to be in love, and is willing to give up her emotions for the sake of her family.
The younger sister is enthusiastic and outgoing.
Love is sometimes as sweet as honey, sometimes as bitter as yellow lotus.
Based on Jane Austen’s novel of the same name, “Sense and Sensibility” depicts the twists and turns of two sisters, played by Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, in their quest for true love.
This film is the first English-language film directed by Ang Lee, and the cast is quite luxurious.
Ang Lee interprets the elegance and restraint of British classical culture with oriental restraint, won the Golden Bear Award in one fell swoop, and successfully entered the door of mainstream Hollywood film production with this film.
“Before Sunrise” (1995)
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl, Karl Bruckschwaiger
Synopsis: Jesse, a young American, meets Céline, a French schoolgirl, on the train. The two have a great conversation.
When they arrive in Vienna, Jesse invites Céline to take a tour of Vienna with them, even though Jesse has to fly out the next day.
Céline, who fell in love with Jesse at first sight, accepted the invitation. As they tour the city, they talk about each other’s past and how they feel about life.
In the end, they meet to see each other after half a year.
What to watch: This film is the first of Richard Linklater’s “Love in” series, which is called “Tumblr Affair” by netizens.
Although Aventure is very vulgar to talk about now, in 1995 when this film was filmed, such a love routine was still very pioneering, and the story was simple but very moving.
The vinyl record store scene is the most expressive of the film. The ambiguous atmosphere slowly flowed in the music and the cautious eyes looking at each other, and love happened so simply and naturally.
Without dog blood and eachother, the most fascinating thing about love is its lack of motivation and shortness. Gain and loss have always been the two eternal themes about love.
After this film, the director chose the same group of actors to make two series of sequels in 18 years.
In addition to choosing a different shooting city for each film, the audience can also observe the time scale on the actor’s face in the series every 9 years.
“Camille Claudel” (1988)
Director: Bruno Nuytten
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill, Philippe Clévenot
Synopsis: Camille is a beautiful girl with great artistic talent who falls in love with the world-famous sculptor Rodin.
However, as long as the relationship with the master is always full of torment and ups and downs, so is Camille. What will the fate of Camille bring to their mad and passionate love?
What to watch: The love story of a genius and a beautiful woman is often enviable, but the love between a genius woman and a master in this film is embarrassing.
Camille, a young girl with an extraordinary talent for sculpture, falls in love with the sculptor Rodin.
Due to the tricks of fate, her amazing talent, paranoid personality and this impossible love have mercilessly led her to madness and “destruction”.
The film can be called “French Rose” Isabelle Adjani’s rhapsody alone, she struggles for love in the film, covered with scars, breathtakingly beautiful, and her performance is impeccable.
Adjani’s interpretation of the creation of the genius sculptor Camille can be said to be a soul possession of the character. With this film, she finally won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress.
