Sweet post-modern fable

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2018)

Love Will Ferrell in this more nuanced and ever so cute role, and Emma Thompson is fun too as the fate-wielding authoress. I just can't understand why some reviewers found this 'boring'. There's the gentle romance, and the fairy-tale feel still rooted in contemporary city life - perhaps a cookie too sweet for some, but for me I was lickiing my fingers after for every crumb. This is such a good-natured film, yes without any irony or darkness and the ending of course was inevitable but it's a fable not cinema verite, and on that level, with the cool soundtrack too, it just left me with such a warm glow for all concerned. Some movies challenge and enquire, shock or excite, this makes for mild chuckle after chuckle, and leaves one pleasantly enchanted.