Love and Other Disasters
If that can go well? A romantic comedy that simultaneously hugs the stereotypes and artifacts of the genre and is a modern counterpart to Breakfast at Tiffany's. Director Alek Keshishian has definitely set a lot for "Love and Other Disasters".
The content is quickly told: The upturned American Jacks (Brittany Murphy) works as a fashion assistant at the British Vogue. She does not really have a grip on her own love life - which does not stop her from coupling all her friends with alleged dream partners. She also has someone on her mind for her gay roommate Peter (Matthew Rhys): Paolo (Santiago Cabrera), the Argentine assistant to a Vogue photographer. Jacks does not notice that he is obviously not interested in men. Thus, a story unfolds about confusion and misunderstandings, at the end of which the leading actress almost misses the man of her dreams.
Love and Other Disasters
Brittany in Audrey's footsteps
Music and styling are reminiscent of the swinging sixties, and the allusions to the classic "Breakfast at Tiffany's" are omnipresent. With wide-open Rehuga under the thick eyelid lines, Brittany Murphy honestly tries to follow in Audrey Hepburn's footsteps. The traces of her famous predecessor, however, are far too large, so that Murphy stabs plenty awkward through the film. Even Santiago Cabrera as a colorless photographer leaves no lasting impression. Mathew Rhys, known from the series "Brothers & Sisters", as an intellectual, somewhat dapper roommate Peter, on the other hand, a real stroke of luck.
It gets really funny in the last third, when the hitherto unsuccessful author Peter writes a screenplay about the experiences of his friends and so quite postmodern a film is created in the film. "Love and Other Disasters" would have tolerated even more winks of this kind. Instead, director Keshishian has his characters preach wisdom and philosophize about great emotions. As with all recipes: The mix makes it. In this case, unfortunately, it is not consistent, so that the film does not want to work either as a "real" Liebesschmonzette still persiflage.
