Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Letters to Juliet – A heart warming movie





Motion Picture : Letters to Juliet
Cast : Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Chris Egan
Year of Release : 2010

“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart” - Phyllis Theroux

How true is this quote!!! Even though E-Mails, Messengers and SMS have become the swift mediums to stay connected, but nothing competes the charm of a affectionate letter enclosed in a envelope. Hollywood motion picture “Letters to Juliet” is all about re-discovering your old lost love.

Love finds you when you least expect it”


Destiny gives an unexpected opportunity to an elderly woman named Clara to reunite with her lover through help of Sophie, a New York fact checker. On her vacation to Verona with her fiancee, Sophie disovers an old letter of 1950’s written by a woman named Clara to her lover, Lorenzo.

 Sophie takes a liking to this unrequited message and decides to reply back to Clara. Destiny connects Sophie to Clara and her grandson Charlie in the legendary city of Verona, the home of Juliet Capulet. Sophie befriends 80 year old Clara and promises to help find her long lost love, Lorenzo and thus begins a new journey for search of love. During this sweet pursuit of love, an affectionate bonding takes place between Sophie and Charlie. Though they like each other, Sophie and Charlie hesitate to express their feelings to each other. 

Since Clara has lost the clue of the whereabouts of Lorenzo, it becomes hard for Sophie and Charlie to find Lorenzo in the city of Verona. Though Charlie and Sophie knock the doors of the people with the name Lorenzo, they are unable to trace the real Lorenzo. As Clara is about to give her hope, Sophie and Charlie succeed to find the old Lorenzo. What happens next is series of sweet and heartwarming situations that change the destiny of Clara as well as Sophie.
This story reveolves around two woman, Sophie and Clara. One is looking for her long lost love and other searching for a true , sincere love in her life. Will Clara succeed to unite with Lorenzo? What happens of Sophie? Will she realize that her mean, workahaolic fiancee is not a match for her? Will Charlie express his feelings to Sophie? Come, discover the true meaning of love in the hollywood motion picture – Letters to Juliet featuring Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Egan in the lead roles.

The best part about this movie is that it doesn’t have any high dose of emotions or melodrama. It’s a simple, lovable, heart warming romantic movie which will definitely bring a smile on your face. First of all, I loved the sweet performance of Amanda Seyfried as Sophie who helps Clara (played by Vanessa Redgrave) to find her long lost love. If you have penchant for romantic movies, then do rent a DVD of this movie or download it on Torrentz..

If you love this movie, then you will also like “French Kiss”, “You have got the mail”, “The Holiday” and “Leap Year”. Hope you all loved this post. Do comment.