Love Actually, because love is everywhere

Set in the contemporary London during the two months preceding Christmas, Love Actually, directed by Richard Curtis, weaves together a series of funny and poignant stories that form into one, but with many highlights on Christmas day. Love equals of all when it comes to complicate them life, acting as a common thread in all of them. The loves and lives of all of these Londoners are mixed and interwoven with romantic, funny and bittersweet results for all who have had the luck or the misfortune of falling in love.

 

 

 

While the new British Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) falls for a member of his cabinet (Martine McCutcheon), a writer (Colin Firth) discovers that his girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) is unfaithful with his brother, so he decides to go to the South of France, where he will know his new Assistant (Lucía Moniz).A happily married woman (Emma Thompson) begins to suspect that her husband (Alan Rickman) is cheating with his Secretary (Heike Makatsch). On the other hand, a newly married young woman (Keira Knightley) does not understand the surly attitude of the best friend of her husband (Andrew Lincoln). We will also discover how a widower (Liam Neeson) stepfather decides to help her stepson of eleven years (Thomas Sangster) to conquer the most popular girl at his school. At the same time, an Executive (Laura Linney) Decides to take the first step with another co-worker that takes time in love (Rodrigo Santoro). And, as a brooch to this mishmash of stories, an old rocker (Bill Nighy) prepares its stellar comeback in a very peculiar way. All of them

are some of the lives and tangles which we discover in this film, featuring a large cast of great actors.

 

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Love Actually, first film directed by Curtis, develops in a constantly jump from a story to another, creating a puzzle that is easy to follow thanks to the fluidity with which the scenes, are happening being the precursor of this style movies such as stories of Valentine's or year's Eve night, both directed by Garry Marshall. Thus, the structure of the film gets its objective of engaging the interest of the Viewer, allowing you to maintain a certain capacity to surprise. His proposal and his message are so wide that it can satisfy a large number of spectators.

Love Actually is a dynamic comedy that does not bored at all and that benefits from excellent performers and a series of moments that manages to excite the audience thanks to the simplicity and the evolution of the lives of the characters. Another point in favour to highlight is, without doubt, fleeting but extremely funny appearances as Rowan Atkinson, that raises a smile with his mere presence. In addition, music is also very present in the film, from its wonderful introduction with the instrumental version of Love Is All Around, Wherever You Will Go, The Calling, or the known-through theme Here With Me, Dido, accompanying one of the most disturbing scenes of the film.

.Love Actually is, in fact, an abbreviation of Love Actually Is All Around. This is precisely the argument of the film: everywhere you look, love is the engine and is the driving force of our lives. From Prime Ministers to the old rock stars, from a cold head of school until a Portuguese Assistant that knows no other language; the film features funny, sad and stupid aspects of love in all its forms and sizes. That is the true charm of Love Actually: your message

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This is why what is manages to distinguish many other romantic comedies, because your message ends up being a call to optimism and overcoming. A challenge which we must overcome is perfectly transmitted and by each of its characters. In short, a perfect movie for these dates and illusions on this night of Kings. Because, if you pay enough attention, you will discover that, actually, love is everywhere

 

 

 

 

Andrea Delgado Vélez

Rosa Martin Montero

Irene Bragado Navacerrada