Sam Claflin and Olivia Munn head the ensemble as would-be lovers kept apart by chance through multiple reality resets in Netflix's Rome-set rom-com, written and directed by Dean Craig ('Death at a Funeral')
might be a minor French comedy from 2012 calledSliding Doors. From the first comes the idea of parallel realities, their varying permutations dictated by chance; from the second, well, it's right there in the new film's title. Writer-director Dean Craig clearly worships at the altar of Richard Curtis, whose diluted DNA is all over Netflix's rom-com about an obstacle course of ceremonial chaos along the path to blissful union.
Coronavirus lockdown is causing many of us to crave comfort viewing, and a '90s throwback with attractive people struggling to unravel romantic entanglements in a gorgeous setting should be just the ticket. But there's a difference between pleasing familiarity and derivative staleness.
The film proper opens with sumptuous postcard views of Rome in all its sun-kissed splendor, images that now bring a pang of melancholy as hard-hit Italy sits out the 5th week of its shutdown. Jack has been visiting his sister Hayley in the Italian capital on the same weekend as her friend Dina, a journalist between assignments in "war-torn hellholes." He's instantly smitten and she appears to feel the same, but he summons the nerve to kiss her too late, and the moment is lost.
The title of the source material translates as "Seating Plan," which sets up the multiple-outcome scenario thanks to some mischievous kids switching up the place cards at the table for English-speaking guests. So rather than avoiding his hostile ex Amanda , Jack gets stuck alongside her, while Dina is stranded next to Sidney , a thumping bore who is not Scottish but wears a kilt to allow for endless jokes about testicle discomfort.
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