Romcoms? I'm wild about them, but I can be overly fussy about favorites.
I don't want to be that person who presents a laundry list of what I like and don't, because it is hard work to make a film, even a film that doesn't ring my bell. So films I don't like? Go on your merry way, because I'm not taking you down here. Best of luck to you.
So here are a few romantic-comedy films I enjoy very much. Tell me yours? Please?
1. "When Harry Met Sally...": It's pretty much a perfect movie, and I could spend a week blogging about why I think that. I love the little fight Harry and Sally have at their friends Jess and Marie's new apartment. It feels real to me. And the sort of directionless, downtime joking. That's 98% of coupledom. Oh my gosh. I'm thinking of particular lines now, like when Harry asks Sally if she wants to go out, in the museum, but he asks in a funny voice, to try and lighten the moment. LOVE. I'll have to post about this film, clearly.
2. "Amelie": Lovesomuchyeshooray! Okay, there needs to be an "Amelie" post, too, bien sûr. I can't even start. I can't. The photo booth? I can't.
3. "Roxanne": Gahhhhhh. In a word. Though, as I get older, I kind of want Steve Martin and Shelley Duvall to get together.
4. "Ninotchka": This 1939 film glows. It's gorgeous. Three things I love:
Greta Garbo wears the elf hat to end all elf hats. This chapeau is positively vertical. She could hide a ham in there. I'd wear it.
Two? There's a scene with a blindfolded Garbo, a Champagne cork popping, and her sliding down a wall, that can't be fully described here. I can't possibly begin to capture its poetry. Also, it's very sexy in the way that things in the late '30s had to be sexy in different, non-obvious, non-"let's-get-naked" ways.
And three? The characters laugh together. That's probably the most famous scene in the film. So often one character will laugh at another character's line, but a pair or an entire group doesn't often melt into happy tears together on film, in the way it happens in life. My favorite, favorite thing.
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