For Latin music fans new to the classic romantic comedy.
Direction: Kat Coiro Distribution: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, Sarah Silverman, John Bradley, Chloe Coleman Original title: marry me Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 02-18-2022 Gender: Romance Script: Harper Dill, John Rogers, Tami Sagher Photography: Florian Ballhouse Synopsis: A pop star is dumped by her fiancé moments before her wedding at Madison Square Garden, so she decides to marry a man she randomly selects from the audience.
No matter how reluctant one might be towards the combination (laugh at the COVID mutations) Jennifer López + romantic comedy + Latin trap, the truth is that when it is used as a touchstone of this, yes, romantic comedy with Jennifer López and Latin trap pop sound setting (and Maluma), one of the most beautiful songs of the musical Camelot, If Ever I Would Leave You, the reluctant critic buries the preconceived hatchet.
If ever I would leave you, it wouldn’t be in summer, Lancelot sings to Guinevere knowing that their love is impossible but that it will continue to be an eternal love. Okay, not the Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave of Joshua Logan’s glorious film version of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical, but for a moment, Owen Wilson and J-Lo manage to be far beyond and well above the usual romcom that is Marry me. They ensure that everything that is unoriginal and archetypal about the genre and its characters has an instant (intimate and precious) of absolute truth within that wonderful lie that is cinema. A moment as bright as seeing Geneva’s face bathed in the summer sun and being unable to leave her in that season of the year. Perhaps that is the reason for not being able to leave this film that had all the ingredients to almost fall into a self-parody.
Marry me constantly plays with that contrast between the artificial and the simplicity of the natural. Between his narrative style influenced by those social networks and that trap-ero musical world of flashes and tinsel, and that of letting the protagonists of the story look at each other, walk together, talk and listen to each other. Perhaps Kat Coiro, a seasoned director on the small screen (here she is sometimes seen closer to modern-family what of Mozart in the Jungle), He knows how to handle more the most current and modern part of language than that of a classic romantic movie to use. However, he does end up handling his codes with some ease, even more so if he knows where he had to be inspired (when not copying explicitly: the press conference): the Richard Curtis (script) of Notting Hill (the relationship between Jennifer López and Owen Wilson is very much that of Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, and Sarah Silverman is still a Rhys Ifans as a woman) and the Richard Curtis (script and direction) of Love Actually (the end).
With an almost inadvertent touch to the movie that touches me the most by Kevin Smith, A girl from Jersey (Owen Wilson’s character and his daughter’s), Marry me It is what it is, his songs don’t bother me too much and he has even been able to put an end to my reticence. There must be something good in it, of course.
Source: Fotogramas
Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
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