The Symmetry of Love (2010)
Alex, a young journalist girl, enters in the life of Kyle by chance. He's a seductive architect who doesn't know his ex-wife, Elizabeth, is back in town after the death of her very rich - very old Parisian new husband. Elizabeth takes up her career as a psychologist and she has a new patient: Richard. He is afraid of the way his sexual life with Jane is going. She is a quiet and shy librarian with hidden hobbies, who likes to chat on the internet with Enzo, Kyle's best friend. Richard is paying his therapy with the money he earns as a mariachi chocolate seller in supermarket promotions while he waits for his novels to be published. One of the novels tells the story of his ex-girlfriend Alex... (http://www.thesymmetryoflove.com).
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Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Alright the acting was actually pretty o.k.. But being the movie was written by government propagandist's in the most cheesy airbrushed "life is sexy and fun" even when " hard"☹️ Pouty face.Is this eastenders for millennials daydreamers? But it was made in 2010?They say it was made for 300,000 that's got to be bs. Maybe they got 10 million on the side from corporate-gov sponsors? Redeeming quality?Heterosexuality is popularized and dating is encouraged. But apparently just for white barbie and ken.
"The Symmetry of Love" is a romantic comedy of interweaving relationships set in London with an interweaving relationship with Spain. I could tell you who is in love with whom, and who is friends with whom and who used to be in love with whom. But that gets way too confusing. I had to use the back of the DVD case as a cheat sheet to get me through it.Romantic comedies, by definition, should be romantic and funny. I'm pretty sure the comedy was in the form of a librarian saying and doing sexually-deviant things, and oh surprise, each character has a secret connection with the next one. But nothing was very funny. Romance was missing too because heart and depth to each character was missing.There have been some successful romantic comedies with a myriad of characters all with interweaving relationships, but that's a very difficult genre to write well. Here, we kept moving from character to character that I wasn't given the time to get to know them or the reason why I should. All the young actors in "The Symmetry of Love" are beautiful people who could have a bright future but I was never really introduced to them.