Ultimate Romantic Moments In Film

27 January 2012

0Comments | Comment on this Article

Movies are to romance what Rough Guides are to adventure, right? Visions of how good life could be if you took the right paths instead of just drinking in the hotel bar all night. By that logic, if you watch enough rom-coms you, theoretically, should know how to get the most out of relationships - and life. And everything would be wonderful! Take One Day, for example.

Lone Scherfig’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ much-loved book has got to be the strongest example of how not to lead your life. So, if you just do everything opposite to Em and Dex, you’ll be happy and in love quicker than you can say 'best film eva.'

Of course that’s what makes One Day one of the most romantic stories of recent times - the two leads realise too damn late how perfect they are to each other. Argh! It’s enough to make you want to quit your day job waiting tables in a Mexican restaurant.

Featuring a stellar cast lead by Academy-Award Nominee Anne Hathaway and Brit Jim Sturgess, the film showcases an array of home-grown British including hilarious and heart-breaking turns by Rafe Spall  (Shaun of the Dead) and Romola Garai (Atonement). It’s out on Blu-ray and DVD from 6th February. Can’t wait. 

To toast the film’s release, we look back at some of the most romantic moments on film EVA!!

- One Day (2011)

When Em hugs Dex in London’s Soho and tells him 'I love you, Dex, so much. I just don't like you anymore,' your heart just feels like giving up. You want to scream at Dex 'shape up! Lay off the coke and be the man Emma needs! Quickly - time is precious!'

Sorry, got a bit worked up there. Following the story of Emma (Hathaway)  and Dexter (Sturgess), who meet on the day of their university graduation, July 15th 1988, the film catches up with the pair on the same day for the next 20 years as they experience the highs and lows of adulthood both together and apart.

A tale of best friends, regret, missed opportunities and ultimately love - One Day needs to be seen again, in your own home, with a brand new pack of Kleenex and maybe some Ben and Jerry’s.

- Brief Encounter (1945)

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard meet in a suburban railway café. Their love is instant, but there’s one snag = they’re both married, to other people.

Their repressed romance is confined to lunches and daytime cinema trips until it’s over before it began when Howard’s character is forced to take a job overseas.

It all ends as it began, much too quickly, in that crowded railway café. Says she to him: 'I want to die. If only I could die.' He responds 'If you’d die, you’d forget me, I want to be remembered.' Thanks to David Lean’s masterful film, the couple that never was will never be forgotten.

- It Happened One Night (1934)

Spoiled newspaper heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert) runs away from her Murdoch-like father only to bump into a conniving, but charming newspaper reporter Peter (Clark Gable) on the greyhound bus.

This depression-era set farce is the original rom-com, with Ellie and Peter’s mutual distrust morphing into love as they traverse the country meeting various oddbods.

0Comments | Be the first to comment!