Oh dear . I'm probably going to upset a lot of middle class middle aged woman by confessing I didn't like this movie at all for several reasons
1 ) I have a very low tolerance level on middle class metropolitan characters in movies . I am by no means a Maoist but I find it difficult to relate to middle class women who have friends with children who can play a cello
2 ) There's a limit on how many times I can watch a character weeping in one movie . If I hadn't disliked her so much I would have worried about Nina losing so much salt from her body due to the amount of tears she cried
3 ) It was bad enough when the movie was drowning in sentiment ( The amount of tears from Nina would have drowned the movie anyway ) but then the movie has a plot twist featuring Alan Rickman's character which made TRULY MADLY DEEPLY silly more than anything else
4 ) This doesn't feel like a cinematic movie . It feels more like a play produced for television which isn't surprising since director Anthony Minghella started out in the theatre then moved onto script editing jobs in television
There are one or two good points . Despite playing annoying characters the cast do a fairly good job , and there are some touching moments like the scene where where we think Nina and Sandy are alone :
" Nina you're beautiful "
" Who's beautiful ? "
Only to find out they're surrounded by friends of Nina come to do up the house , though unfortunately as I said the film's attempts to touch the audience this way quickly becomes overkill . This movie also deserves some credit of only costing 700,000 dollars a sum it made into a profit several times over to become the most successful British production that year , so thanks for keeping the British film industry going
But at the end of the day TRULY MADLY DEEPLY is a mawkish chick flick and will probably only be remembered as Anthony Minghella's debut as director
1 ) I have a very low tolerance level on middle class metropolitan characters in movies . I am by no means a Maoist but I find it difficult to relate to middle class women who have friends with children who can play a cello
2 ) There's a limit on how many times I can watch a character weeping in one movie . If I hadn't disliked her so much I would have worried about Nina losing so much salt from her body due to the amount of tears she cried
3 ) It was bad enough when the movie was drowning in sentiment ( The amount of tears from Nina would have drowned the movie anyway ) but then the movie has a plot twist featuring Alan Rickman's character which made TRULY MADLY DEEPLY silly more than anything else
4 ) This doesn't feel like a cinematic movie . It feels more like a play produced for television which isn't surprising since director Anthony Minghella started out in the theatre then moved onto script editing jobs in television
There are one or two good points . Despite playing annoying characters the cast do a fairly good job , and there are some touching moments like the scene where where we think Nina and Sandy are alone :
" Nina you're beautiful "
" Who's beautiful ? "
Only to find out they're surrounded by friends of Nina come to do up the house , though unfortunately as I said the film's attempts to touch the audience this way quickly becomes overkill . This movie also deserves some credit of only costing 700,000 dollars a sum it made into a profit several times over to become the most successful British production that year , so thanks for keeping the British film industry going
But at the end of the day TRULY MADLY DEEPLY is a mawkish chick flick and will probably only be remembered as Anthony Minghella's debut as director