Some couples who love each other a lot may not end well. Like that of David and Georgia, who embodied George Clooney Y Giulia Roberts They are, far, far away, the best of passage to heaventhe romantic comedy that is neither that good nor that bad.
A film that, if you miss it, you don’t miss too much, and if you decide to go and see it, you’ll have fun.
It is so.
Clooney and Roberts, it shows, became close friends after sharing the filming of the lord of money (2016), directed by Jodie Foster. The opportunity arose to meet again outside of Los Angeles, they flew to Australia and shot the film. If you stay until the end, in the credits, you will see the outtakes and you will see that they had a lot of fun.
25 years ago David and Georgia got married. As soon as the film starts, we see that everyone tells their story differently. They have been married for five years, and today, who can’t even see each other, they decide to join forces for a common good: to prevent their only daughter from making the same mistake as them: getting married.
beaches and love
Lily (Kaitlyn Dever, this year’s Emmy nominee for drug addict, the miniseries with Michael Keaton) graduated as a lawyer and left after four years of studies and efforts for a vacation in Bali, together with a partner. There he meets a local, Gede (Maxime Bouttier), engaged in collecting seaweed. It’s love at first sight, and his parents are determined that Lily will “come to her senses.”
First they will tell him that they are completely okay with the wedding, and then they will try to boycott it in a thousand possible ways, from stealing the rings from the newlyweds – a few days go by when director Ol Parker’s camera pans on the beaches, the translucent waters. and the vegetation of Bali – to create strategies to achieve your goal.
You don’t have to have seen a lot of romantic comedies to figure out what’s going to happen next. So, the best thing to do is to relax in the armchair, enjoy the scenery and watch the divorced couple, who seem to understand each other so well that one wonders why they separated.
Ol Parker, screenwriter of the two films of The exotic Hotel Marigoldand director and librettist of Mamma Mia! Let’s go againit does not demonstrate what is said to be more than classic timing for comedy, because passage to heaven It is not that he even gives us hilarious moments, even if they are cartoonish, so as not to fall into the easy way to say that they are ridiculous.
But they are there to be.
the above, passage to heaven it doesn’t bring much more to Roberts or Clooney than what they collect in their bank accounts. When it comes time to remember them in their best separate romantic comedies, it certainly won’t be among them.
“Landscape in paradise”
Good
Romantic comedy. United States, 2022. Original title: “Ticket to Paradise”. 104 ‘, SAM 13. Of: Ol Parker. With: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever. Rooms: Belgrano and Norcenter showcase, Cinépolis Recoleta, Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
