- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2001
- Country/ies:
- France
- UK
- US
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Author(s)/Director(s):
- Sharon MAGUIRE
- Best Performance(s):
- Colin FIRTH
- Hugh GRANT
- Renée ZELLWEGER
- Premiss:
- A woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
- Theme(s):
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Pleasingly un-Americanised, England-set comedy about White women’s weight obsession, that is really narcissistic self-loathing. There is no frank analysis of why any women would fall for the sleazy charms of a Hugh GRANT-type, so the film tends to reveal its self-indulgent nature by default.
Austenesque, but not as witty, since its characters are undifferentiated and anal rather than romantic. Without a definition of the love the central character seeks, this is the wish-fulfilment fantasy of someone who does not know who they are; despite their claim of liking someone else for themselves.
GRANT will probably never find the scripts Cary Grant found to exercise his also considerable comic ability. Texan Renée ZELLWEGER carries off her north London accent with aplomb. Colin FIRTH reprises his tv Darcy with a character of the same name in a nice ironic touch.
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