Amazon.co.uk Review
Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
Twee and fanciful middle class rubbish.......2007-09-09
A film for Laura Ashley types with nothing else better to do than have a good old sob over a flimsy, trite piece of fantasy. Over indulgent to say the very least! It is so depressing that the English have perfected this type of product. A complete slice of non-life and a waste of good film. And they couldn't have chosen more suitable and annoying actors. Let's hope the fad for this type of thing, which was rife in the 1990s doesn't rear its unwelcome head again. Chocolate box rubbish.
truly madly brilliant..........2005-04-08
This has to be at the top of my list of all-time favourite films. The acting is always top quality, understated and the characters are all too human (like the part where Nina and Jamie hide out of sight as Nina's sister rings the doorbell). As a study of bereavement and grief it ranks among the best, but it's not at all doom and gloom - it has me laughing one minute and crying the next. The last few moments are particularly poignant, but it always leaves me with a feeling of being uplifted. If you've never seen Truly, Madly, Deeply, you're missing a real treat.
A diamond in the crown of British cinema.......2005-02-12
Unless you only like violent, over the top, high octane blockbusters, you're not going to like this film. I really don't see how anyone else could not like it. Anthony Minghella writes splendid scripts with a profound reflection on life and being human- take his other outstanding film The Talented Mr Ripley, for instance.
It's wonderfully calculated- not too rom-commy to be shallow, not too heavy to scare a rom-com audience away.
Sometimes all the ingredients of a film come together to create something which is artful, poignant and a perfect little piece of cinema. It's a wonderful 2 hour experience which explores so many issues and emotions. Juliet is the most fabulous thing about it though- such skill and perfection in playing the role of the so likable Nina.
How can I praise it enough? Buy this DVD now and show your friends what good taste you have in films.
Just Brilliant.......2004-01-02
I first watched this film when I was about 14 years old and cried non stop throughout the whole film like a baby. I watched it again more recently and cried non stop throughout the entire film like a baby. Both Rickman and Stevenson are wonderful, as are the rest of the cast. It has the feel of a low budget British film and shows what can be achieved by a simple story line and some fantastic writers. I love films like this, ones that make you laugh just as much as they make you cry. Real films about real people. You won't be disapointed.
My favourite film.......2003-01-06
This remains my favourite film of all time. I know it is not an epic but for me it has everything. A well written and imaginative script that is full of vitality and compassion. Wonderful performances by everyone in the cast. Wit and humour as well as an examination of the pain of loss and renewal and birth. One of the few films I must have seen ten times and never tire of. Simple yet profound - straighforward and yet brilliant. And the speech about the waste of love - well, scripts don't get better than this. If you only buy one film in your whole life - make it this one.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Truly Madly Deeply is an intelligent, moving, and deeply funny story about love and death. Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a scatterbrained professional translator, has lost the love of her life, Jamie (Alan Rickman). As her life (and her flat) slowly falls to pieces, she is inundated with an endless stream of repairmen and eligible suitors. But rather than go on with life, Nina dwells on her dead love, slumped at her piano, endlessly playing half of a Bach duet. Then, in a truly magical sequence, his cello suddenly joins her melody... and Jamie's back from the dead. At first it's bliss--think of the superficially similar blockbuster Ghost, only with real people instead of pretty faces Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. But Nina gradually realises it's a thoroughly real Jamie who's back; complete with every annoying, argumentative fault she'd conveniently forgotten. (He might be dead, he explains, but he still attends political meetings.) Moreover, he has to hide whenever any of the living are around. And he's constantly ice-cold. And he invites his dead pals to her place at all hours. What's a living woman to do? Director Anthony Minghella went on to create the melodramatic period piece The English Patient--but in this film, he shows a far more sensitive, subtle touch. The photography is brilliant, capturing the simple beauties of suburban London. And the wonderfully acted characters, quirky and all too real, will keep you laughing--and always guessing what will happen next.--Grant Balfour, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
Twee and fanciful middle class rubbish.......2007-09-09
A film for Laura Ashley types with nothing else better to do than have a good old sob over a flimsy, trite piece of fantasy. Over indulgent to say the very least! It is so depressing that the English have perfected this type of product. A complete slice of non-life and a waste of good film. And they couldn't have chosen more suitable and annoying actors. Let's hope the fad for this type of thing, which was rife in the 1990s doesn't rear its unwelcome head again. Chocolate box rubbish.
truly madly brilliant..........2005-04-08
This has to be at the top of my list of all-time favourite films. The acting is always top quality, understated and the characters are all too human (like the part where Nina and Jamie hide out of sight as Nina's sister rings the doorbell). As a study of bereavement and grief it ranks among the best, but it's not at all doom and gloom - it has me laughing one minute and crying the next. The last few moments are particularly poignant, but it always leaves me with a feeling of being uplifted. If you've never seen Truly, Madly, Deeply, you're missing a real treat.
A diamond in the crown of British cinema.......2005-02-12
Unless you only like violent, over the top, high octane blockbusters, you're not going to like this film. I really don't see how anyone else could not like it. Anthony Minghella writes splendid scripts with a profound reflection on life and being human- take his other outstanding film The Talented Mr Ripley, for instance.
It's wonderfully calculated- not too rom-commy to be shallow, not too heavy to scare a rom-com audience away.
Sometimes all the ingredients of a film come together to create something which is artful, poignant and a perfect little piece of cinema. It's a wonderful 2 hour experience which explores so many issues and emotions. Juliet is the most fabulous thing about it though- such skill and perfection in playing the role of the so likable Nina.
How can I praise it enough? Buy this DVD now and show your friends what good taste you have in films.
Just Brilliant.......2004-01-02
I first watched this film when I was about 14 years old and cried non stop throughout the whole film like a baby. I watched it again more recently and cried non stop throughout the entire film like a baby. Both Rickman and Stevenson are wonderful, as are the rest of the cast. It has the feel of a low budget British film and shows what can be achieved by a simple story line and some fantastic writers. I love films like this, ones that make you laugh just as much as they make you cry. Real films about real people. You won't be disapointed.
My favourite film.......2003-01-06
This remains my favourite film of all time. I know it is not an epic but for me it has everything. A well written and imaginative script that is full of vitality and compassion. Wonderful performances by everyone in the cast. Wit and humour as well as an examination of the pain of loss and renewal and birth. One of the few films I must have seen ten times and never tire of. Simple yet profound - straighforward and yet brilliant. And the speech about the waste of love - well, scripts don't get better than this. If you only buy one film in your whole life - make it this one.
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