Letters to Juliet is a flaccid romance

Italian odyssey: Amanda Seyfried and Christopher Egan
10 April 2012

A film with Vanessa Redgrave and Gael García Bernal among the cast ought to be sharper than Gary Winick’s flaccid romance.

The director throws away Bernal as a would-be chef unhappily engaged to aspiring reporter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), and casts the peerless Redgrave as a forlorn old duck who, many years ago, ran away from a romance in Verona and now searches Italy for the man she left.

Unfortunately there are many of his name in this part of the country, which encourages Winick to produce copious attractive views of the Italian scenery while she examines them. Sophie follows her, thinking it might make a story, and slowly but surely falls for the old girl’s uptight grandson (Christopher Egan).

It is a desperately sloppy story, its essential wetness compounded by insipid performances from Seyfried and Egan, which suggest that Bernal was well out of his projected marriage.

Letters To Juliet
Cert: PG

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