This is perfectly for the romantic being and is also perfect for anyone who's ever felt the pangs of love. It is a tale of love, old and new. It is when Sophie the New York city writer went for a holiday in Verona with her fiances, Victor, stumbles upon a vonlunteer Juliet and upon a note left by an English girl at Uliet's house half a century earlier. Since the letter is in ENglish, the volunteers recruit Sophie to answer it. The letters are answered by a group of women known as ``Juliet's secretaries.'' With nothing better to do, Sophie joins their ranks and, under a crumbling rock, finds a letter written in the 1950s by a British woman, Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), who laments leaving her true love, Lorenzo. Sophie writes back, inspiring Claire to return to Italy to find him, escorted by her handily attractive grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan), a pouty brat until the script requires him not to be.
The trio then begins searching for Lorenzo, but Charlie is a problem. His transformation from prig to prince is never entirely believable. Egan is a poor-woman's Heath Ledger, cute enough, but without Ledger's distinctive charm. No sane woman of any age would trade sampling great wine and roaming around Italy with Gael García Bernal for the privilege of being berated by Charlie. And so Sophie's choice makes her seem churlish and a bit more dim than she should be.
But then there's Redgrave and her long-lost love (Franco Nero), whose real-life story is as romantic as anything this movie can manufacture. They had a child, split years ago and reunited in 2006. The sight of this aging Guinevere and her Lancelot together is sweet enough to help you overlook Letters to Juliet's improbablities.
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Letters To Juliet is an enchanting love story -- a tale of encountering new sparks and rekindling old flames. When Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young American, travels to Verona, Italy -- the romantic city where Romeo first met Juliet -- she meets a group of volunteers who respond to letters written to Juliet seeking romantic advice. 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 fiance 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.
Are you getting your movie tickets to watch the movie "Letters to Juliet" yet? If not the movie tickets, perhaps you could get the chance to know the story by reading the book. This "Letters to Juliet" portrays such an amazing love story a timeless romance like Gone with the Wind.
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