Contents
- Moonlight Kingdom directed by Wes Anderson, 2012
- The Notebook, directed by Nick Cassavetes, 2004
- «Amelie», directed by Jean-Pierre Jeanne, 2001
- French Kiss, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, 1995
- The Old Maid, directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc, 1971
- Irina Palm Make IT Better Directed by Sam Garbarsky, 2007
- «Love by the rules … and without», directed by Nancy Myers, 2003
The meeting of two is always like snow on the head, like a bolt from the blue, always the irony of fate. And the cinema loves the non-randomness of the accidental, the supreme craft in connecting strangers, the marvelous paradox of love «chemistry» arising from nothing.
They say about such love: like in the movies. Fairy tale novels born of a happy accident. In fact, these are the stories of ordinary people, just like you and me. They were just a little more fortunate — they met each other.
Moonlight Kingdom directed by Wes Anderson, 2012
«What kind of bird are you? “I am a raven,” were the first words exchanged behind the scenes of an amateur opera production on an island in New England by local resident Susie Bishop from End of Summer Ranch and “field scout” orphan Sam Shakasky from Camp Ivanhoe. An active philosopher and a consistent misanthrope met to spend the rest of the bleak childhood of the mid-American 1960s together. And possibly life.
The Notebook, directed by Nick Cassavetes, 2004
“It was the evening on the day the rides arrived. There they met. June 6, 1940. Emmy was then 17 years old, ”is written in a novel about great love, which is read in a nursing home by an old man to his amnesiac wife. She reads to awaken in her, if not memories, then at least feelings. After all, that meeting was unusual — the guy from the sawmill, begging for a date with the daughter of the rich, hung on top, grabbing the crossbar of the Ferris wheel with one hand … The meeting of the heroes of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams awakened completely new feelings in them. The capacity for boundless devotion opened up in him, and in her a sense of the boundlessness of the world.
«Amelie», directed by Jean-Pierre Jeanne, 2001
“The young man pulling something out from under the photo booth is called Nino Quincampois. At a distance, they simultaneously dreamed: one about a sister, and the other about a brother, to be inseparable with them. This is how a life-changing Montmartre waitress and a dreamer from an adult store met. The heroine Audrey Tautou saw off the blind man, told him a lot of interesting things and entered the subway, and the hero Mathieu Kassovitz was there just replenishing the collection of unclaimed portraits of strangers. They really do not need to be separated — an amateur fairy and a storyteller.
French Kiss, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, 1995
“Have you ever thought that it was not about the plane? You are afraid of something else… You are afraid of life, afraid of love, afraid of sex!” — so the avant-garde French pickpocket greeted the panic-stricken American excellent student in the next chair. However, they will be bound … by a vine from California. Her, precious, the hero of Kevin Kline smuggled into strict France, secretly planting it in the luggage of the heroine Meg Ryan. He thought to finally start the life of a hereditary winemaker. And here she is, a bungler and a bore. With their banal drama (the fiancé went to a capricious Frenchwoman), absurd aerophobia and absurd failures — that’s the suitcase with the vine stolen … Luke and Kate will find not a groom and not a suitcase, but something more substantial.
The Old Maid, directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc, 1971
“How long…” complains about the service in the restaurant of the resort hotel the hero of Philippe Noiret, seated at the table of the heroine of Anya Girardot. The local service also doomed them to dissonance: she is already starting dessert, and they bring him an appetizer — a fragrant sardine. Dissonance, turning into stormy skirmishes, awaits the heroes in the future as well — mother’s daughter, an egoist with complexes, and a hedonist, who notices all the absurdities of life with an ironic look, cannot resonate. And yet, the first words will turn out to be prophetic: they have been waiting for each other for so long.
Irina Palm Make IT Better Directed by Sam Garbarsky, 2007
“Waiter is a euphemism. Do you know what a euphemism is? I didn’t know either. My lawyer explained it to me,” Miklos, the owner of a London establishment, tells an elderly widow, Maggie, who came to him in a desperate job search. Her grandson is dying, she needs money for treatment. The son and daughter-in-law are helpless, and the heroine Marianne Faithfull intends to take matters into her own hands. In very tender hands, which are so suitable for the specific work in the special institution of the hero Mika Manoilovich … But here Maggie will find not only a way to save her grandson and a calling for a proletarian of sex work, but also a new destiny.
«Love by the rules … and without», directed by Nancy Myers, 2003
«You fucked my daughter?! “I see you didn’t really like this news …” And who would like it — if the daughter is not even 30, and the hero of Jack Nicholson, whom the heroine Diane Keaton found in her kitchen without trousers, is clearly over 60, and this Harry is her, Erica , peer? Sad as it is to be in the same generation as a lustful playboy for whom there have been no women over 40 for 30 years, love really knows no principles. They will have to give up both Erica and Harry.