Friday, February 28, 2020

Romancefest 2020: One Day


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Written by David Nicholls, based on his novel. Directed by Lone Scherfig. Starring Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison and Jodie Whittaker. USA/UK, 2011.

After a near hook up on their last day of college, we check in on two friends’ lives on the same day each year as they grow and change, find other relationships, and constantly find themselves pulled back together.

An interesting premise and a good cast can’t save this one from its pacing problems. Maybe the cyclical, repetitive nature of updating us one day each year adds to this, I’m not sure, but this is the kind of movie where I was actually thinking how nice it was until I checked the run time and realized I had a whole other hour to go before it would be over. That’s not to say it’s abnormally long, it just feels that way, which is too bad.

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