Love Happens

Love Happens is like a woman who, in an effort to make the best impression on her surroundings, goes overboard with Botox. The film lacks naturalness and lightness. The beautiful Eckhart and Aniston may seem perfect at first glance, but they somehow end up appearing sterile and unable to generate a romantic spark in their atmosphere, despite all their efforts. Perhaps this is related to the excessive effort to create emotions, or to how the film tries to meet the expectations of the settled American middle-class audience about romantic relationships. The excessive anchoring in American society, obsessed with finding successful recipes for anything (in this case, dealing with the death of a loved one), also affects the choice of the male protagonist's profession. All in all, it's an unremarkable, easily forgettable affair that is not worth deeper attention. Overall impression: 40%. (08/06/2021)

Fancy a classic romcom starring Jennifer Aniston? You do? Then pick something else. Although she does play her role as she does in a number of her romantic comedies, she has a polished style, she's sweet, endearing, and snappy, and her micro-world works. But the story of her counterpart is a different movie altogether, about the great pains of grief and repressed feelings. The power with which Aaron Eckhart plays his widower could boldly rival in another film, for example, Birth with Nicole Kidman. And together, unfortunately, it doesn't work at all. (02/08/2017)

One star goes to the cast and the other one is for the few bright moments, but that's about it. The film was melodramatic and clichéd for the most part. It was simply too American for me. (12/08/2016)