The Lake House

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Bel V This romantic movie is a remake of sliding doors. I found myself wanting to travel in time myself, to a time when Keanu was younger. What has he got on his top lip at the end of the final kiss? Snot snot is it? Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/20/24 Full Review Tim J This is my favourite romance movie. I have to wrap my head around the plot every time I re-watch it, but just love it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/17/24 Full Review Claudia P One of my top 10 movies! Every time I watch it, I discover something new. Like the movie Somewhere in Time, time travel can be hard to grasp, but so beautiful, as unrequited love grows stronger through the years, just like Persuasion by Jane Austin. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/16/24 Full Review Cork B I am maybe a bit soft on this film because I love the leads. The movie is short on logic (seriously? He didn't ask for the LOTTO numbers????), but more than makes up for this with a strong emotional tone of ... not sure what,,, maybe wistful longing? I felt similar about Lost in Translation - it was less of a coherent plot and more of a 4-D emotional painting. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/18/24 Full Review Hargie M While some may find the time-traveling premise a bit far-fetched, the film's emotional depth and heartfelt moments more than make up for any suspension of disbelief. A must-watch for hopeless romantics and fans of cinematic magic. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review Tony S Hi from the future time of Easter 2024, watching this charming time Travel romance about the strongly – referenced years 2004 and 2006. I love the movie, and see it every year or two since its release. I watched with my significant other, and it's a delightful movie, very effectively tugging at the heartstrings. Very sophisticated smart dialogue also: it's not often you'll see discussions about high quality architecture of Le Corbusier and Richard Meier, the play of light in buildings and how it's different in Spain and Rome and LA, and a short architectural walking tour of Chicago in 2006, all wrapped up into a wonderful romance. The stars, Sandra Bullock, and Keanu Reeves, work well together. Wonderful to see desirable body shapes on all the actors from 2006, before Today's anorexic ozempic diet drugs look with diet drugs took over. Sandra Bullock scrumptious, Keanu Reeves excellent, Christopher Plummer very effective, and supporting actors including Ms Shahreh ahadashloo as a Polish (!) Chicago emergency ward senior doctor. And wonderful referential nods to Cary Grant and the beautiful Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious" where Ingrid is probing whether Cary cares for her. Movie buff heaven in the mix. And by the way, for all of those critics who commented that Sandra and Keanu underplayed the roles, the snatches of "notorious" showed that Ingrid Bergman was also playing those scenes very low-key and understated. I think the director Alejandro Agnesti was aiming for emotional parallels in "the Lake House". I've seen this movie several times. In its low-key manner it's at least as effective as Sliding Doors and other time shift romance fantasy fables and with more emotional depth. Sure, it involves suspension of disbelief, but that's what fantasy is about (!). Movies (not being documentaries) are artistic creations designed to appeal to the heart and brain. The Lake House works extremely effectively as a work of art. The music is also very effective, with a mixture of Paul McCartney and Italian crooners providing very effective underscoring of the plot points. An underappreciated minor classic. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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