When a young American named Sophie travels to Verona, home of Juliet Capulet from Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance, she joins a group of women who call themselves “Juliet’s secretaries”: women who answer letters that are written to Juliet, seeking advice about love. After answering a letter from 1951, Sophie inspires the author of the letter to travel to Italy in a search for her long-lost love and sets off a series of events that will bring a love into their lives like none they ever imagined.
This was the most perfect love story. You know why? Because it dealt with all kinds of different love. Not just love between a man and a woman, but love for strangers, love of adventure, and a love of love. Definitely a chick flick, this movie was filled with nothing but love, just like the lyrics of all those songs say:
“Love is in the air everywhere I look around.”
“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. Love is all around me and so the feeling grows.”
“Marry me Juliet you’ll never have to be alone. I love and you and that’s all I really know. I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress. It’s a love story, baby just say yes.”
Young American fact-finder Sophie is good at her job, but she’s even better at writing and wishes to become a journalist someday. When she and her fiancé take a pre-wedding honeymoon to Verona, the hometown of Juliet Capulet from Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance, Sophie joins a group of women who call themselves “Juliet’s secretaries”: women who answer letters written to Juliet asking for advice about love. After Sophie finds and answers a letter dated from 1951, she inspires its author to travel to Italy to find her long-lost love. After meeting Claire, the author of the letter, Sophie joins her and her grandson Charlie on their journey to find Claire’s lost love Lorenzo, a journey that will change all their lives forever.
Letters To Juliet was a beautiful film, filled with love stories, beautiful scenery, and wonderful characters. After watching just a scene set in Verona, you instantly want to go there. The cinematography and the way that the scenery was incorporated into the film was breathtaking, it’s well worth seeing the movie just for that.
Amanda Seyfried is Sophie and she is beautiful. I think that she is one of the most gorgeous actresses working today. After the success of Mamma Mia!, where she also played a Sophie, Amanda seems to popping up everywhere and with good reason. She’s a truly gifted actress and in Letters to Juliet she was absolutely enchanting.
Vanessa Redgrave played Claire and I fell in love with her on sight. I actually learnt from my dad last night that in the 1967 film Camelot, Vanessa played Guenevere and Franco Nero, who played Lorenzo in Letters to Juliet, played Lancelot. During that film they had an affair and a child, and forty years later they got married. After hearing this, Letters to Juliet seems to be Vanessa’s own true and beautiful love story. How lovely is that?
Filled with beautiful scenery, a lovely script, wonderful characters, love, and even a balcony scene, Letters to Juliet was a truly beautiful love story, not tragic or sad like Romeo and Juliet or Moulin Rouge or The Time Traveler’s Wife, just lovely and happy. The film washes over you like a wave of warm water. It’s simply magical.
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