Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 89 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Drake Doremus
Stars: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence
IMDb score:
6,6 (64.525)
Releasedate: 28 October 2011
Like Crazy plot
"I Want You. I Need You. I Love You. I Miss You."
Jacob, an American, and Anna, a British, meet at a college in Los Angeles and fall madly in love. It is the purest form of romance – for both it is the first meaningful relationship. When Anna returns to London, the couple is forced into a long-distance relationship. Their perfect love is tested, and their youthfulness, confidence and geography become their worst enemies.
Actors and actresses
Jacob Helm
Anna Gardner
Simon
Jackie Gardner
Bernard Gardner
Liz
Mike Appletree
Ross
Isabelle
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9762 messages
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“I don't feel like I'm part of your life. I feel like I'm on vacation.”
Like Crazy is a beautiful and understated romantic drama about the obstacles two young people face in maintaining a long-distance relationship. Anyone who has ever been in a long distance relationship will recognize many things. The first period when everything is still rosy, saying goodbye, the increasingly difficult and superficial telephone conversations, building a life without that person, a new love, idealizing that first period when everything seemed forever, deciding to move to new country etc.
Everything passes by in Like Crazy and is performed in a modest but more powerful way by director Drake Doremus and the actors. Felicity Jones is a beautiful actress and acts very natural and convincing here. And that British accent makes everything better. Anton Yelchin is slightly less but has a nice chemistry with Jones. Unfortunately, Like Crazy also has some downsides that keep the film from a top score. The blossoming love between Jacob and Anna is touched upon very briefly and the film quickly turns into a depressing tone. It is not a problem that Doremus chooses this, but this makes it difficult to convince the viewer of the all-encompassing love between the two. After twenty minutes you already have the idea that both are better off without each other and then you still have over an hour to go. The film also looks a bit fragmented at the end. Years pass, but in the film, Jacob and Anna are back together in one scene only to be with a new love in the other. It is clear that both Jacob and Anna idealize and romanticize their early days together and luckily that comes across well. The last scene in the shower is beautifully done and a great ending to a somewhat unbalanced film that makes an impression in its most intimate moments.
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Onderhond
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- 12891 votes
Very nice weather.
Third Doremus and his style is easy to recognize. He ignores the grand gestures and the excessively sweet sentiment, but focuses on subtle body language and zooms in on small moments and interactions. It makes romances so much easier to digest, it's also much closer to a lot of Asian work that I prefer.
Jones and Yelchin also do it perfectly, it's just a shame that you notice that this is a slightly older film. Doremus's style may be very recognizable, but it is slightly less refined. Visually it could have been a bit more, the soundtrack could also have been a bit tighter. But those little dots that don't really stand in the way of the film.
Also a nice illustration of how our rules, which prohibit and stop everything out of fear of a few rotten eggs, often get in the way of ordinary, well-meaning people. The idea is perhaps a bit too refined, but at its core I think the message is certainly not wrong and also very suitable as a basis for a romantic drama.
Great movie again, luckily I still have a few more to go. In any case, Doremus has no equal in America.
3.5*
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