A Great Love Story

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 1999)

I was really touched by this movie. At first I was apprehensive that it would turn out to be another "English Patient" (which for me meant an agonizing wait squirming in my chair wondering if this was finally the end of the whole tragic, dour affair), but I was very pleasantly surprised. The love portrayed in this movie is what it is all about, not the pretentious, miserable stuff of the English Patient. Anyway, I was not much for Shakespeare when I was forced to read it in school, but this movie gave me an appreciation for the beauty of his prose. I especially liked the expressions on the faces of the audience when it finally came time to perform Romeo and Juliet. That's how I felt about this movie, too. The only thing I can't figure out is which was Ms. Paltrow's true hair- the gold or brown? I can't see how one could have covered up the other, either way.