Last night I went to see About Time which is a flawed, funny, fabulous film. Mark Kermode's review (see above) of the film seems entirely accurate, both about its flaws and its moving impact.
About Time and Love Actually are films which narrativise love for life - ordinary life - and the seeing of heaven in the ordinary and in a diversity of relationships. To dramatise such love for life is, according to some cynical reviewers such as Anthony Quinn, to be inane yet, despite the sense of "middle-class ease" (which, in these films, ignores totally the suffering that Richard Curtis addresses outside of drama through Comic Relief), the breaking of his own rules of time travel, and the enacting of a fantasy in which death itself is briefly cheated, it seemed to me that Curtis' dramatization of a learning to see and celebrate the wonder of existence (particularly in relationships) was ultimately emotionally convincing and renewing.
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Paul Buchanan - Mid Air.
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