Fantastic and light weighted with good reason.

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2014)

I normally dislike films with conventional plots such as Begin Again, but I have never been more surprised with one. The story, yes, is a bit conventional and you feel like you know where it is going before it shows you, but it doesn't end taking the conventional route of romance and drama. It's fresh to see a film that takes a simple plot and spreads it out layering it for the audience to see and speculate of. I was quite pleasantly surprised to see that nobody dramatically fell in love because a script demanded them to, but they interacted as makes sense. The actions of the characters felt very genuine.
I will briefly talk of the cinematography and such because even though it is generally composed in a conventional style that makes one comfortable, the shot composition is actually quite interesting in that I noticed a few occurrences in which two characters would be having a conversation but the shot was wide and constant with no cuts. I understand it's not some sort of ground breaking style, but it feels fresh for it to be in a film like this.
It was entertaining, pleasantly surprising, funny, charming, slightly self aware, and intelligent. It was simply a fantastic film.