Letters To Juliet is an enchanting love story - a
tale of encountering new sparks and rekindling old flames. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried,
Mamma Mia!) arrives in Verona with her
restaurateur fiancé Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal). Preoccupied with
business, he leaves her to amuse herself. She visits the house allegedly
inhabited by Shakespeare’s Juliet and learns that for years lovelorn women have
been posting letters to Juliet, asking for advice in matters of the heart, and
that a group of volunteers exists who reply to the letters. [They really
do; The
Times reported on it a week or so ago.] Sophie finds and
answers a letter that has been lost for 50 years, and is stunned when its author
Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) arrives in Italy with her handsome but overprotective
grandson (Christopher Egan) to find the fiancé she
left decades before. Fascinated by Claire's quest, Sophie joins them on an
adventure through the beautiful hills of Tuscany searching for Claire's long
lost Lorenzo. The journey will change their lives forever, as they discover it's
never too late to find true love.
“The double romantic
pay-off is beautifully directed and performed; it’s not just what but how it’s
done in this satisfying escapist romance.”
Urban Cinefile
“Redgrave is
incandescent, and casting Franco Nero as Lorenzo was inspired. Nero and
Redgrave had a son soon after they co-starred in 1967’s Camelot, but they
didn’t marry until 2006. Watching art imitate life provides a charm that can’t
be faked.” Rolling Stone
"Who
can resist a happy ending and a love that spans the
ages? Especially when the lovers are played by
real-life longtime couple Redgrave and Franco Nero?
There are worse ways to spend a couple of hours. Set in
some stunning locales in Italy, Letters is a
guilty pleasure that's lighter on the guilt and heavier
on the pleasure." USA Today
For more information, and to see a trailer and
stills, visit the official website at
www.letterstojuliet-movie.com
