Tiresome and Too Long Romance

Rating: 6/10 (1 November 2014)

The seventeen year-old Hazel Grace (Shailene Woodley) has lung cancer and needs to carry everywhere an oxygen tank. Her mother Frannie (Laura Dern) encourages her to go to a cancer support group against her will. However, when Hazel meets the eighteen year-old Gus (Ansel Elgort), who lost part of one leg with cancer but apparently is cured, they fall in love with each other. Hazel introduces her favorite novel to Gus and tells that she dreamed on having a conversation with the author, Van Houten (Willem Dafoe), who lives in Amsterdam. Gus contacts him and Van Houten invites them to visit him in Amsterdam. They travel to Netherlands with Frannie where Hazel will learn that things are not like they seem to be.
"The Fault in Our Stars" is a tiresome and too long romance. The story has a promising beginning, sort of Gus Van Sant's "Restless" and supported by the good performances and chemistry of the young lead couple, but the film should have been edited to become shorter. In the end, it becomes a melodramatic Mexican soap opera. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "A Culpa é das Estrelas" ("The Fault is from the Stars")