David Nicholls's book One Day was not something impressive or exceptionally good, but for some reason Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education, 3 Academy nominations) decided to make her own version of it. Scherfig's adaptation for big screen is pretty much direct one, without any plot changes like alternative of ending, new characters etc.
One Day starts like all love stories do – a boy meets a girl. Two college graduates: beautiful shy girl, wearing over sized glasses, Emma (Anne Hathaway) and self confident charismatic upper-class boy Dexter (Jim Sturgess). They spend the night of July 15th together and this starts their relationship going. One Day takes time of 20 years where characters live two separate lives – Emma is trying to become a successful writer, Dexter is working for his fame as a TV host – but no matter what happens in their lives, they meet on 15th of July every year.
One day was doomed to be ordinary (means boring as hell) romance movie, but showing only one day of the year has made it interesting experience as this became key aspect of whole film. This composition enables us to see growth of couple's relationship over the flow of time. This idea sounds pretty original, however, the most of romance fans must have seen Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer, which has exactly the same concept, only the time period is shorter, so it have not involved changes of environment. Those environmental changes are probably the strongest aspect of whole movie. Hearing constantly changing nostalgic music themes (from Corona's Rhythm of the Night to Ronan Keating's Life Is A Roller-coaster), seeing advancing cars, technology and fashion in general, make this idea of passing time believable.
The main roles are entrusted to always stunning Anne Hathaway and not very well known British actor Jim Sturgess. Hathaway's solid performance is definitely huge input to movie, but Sturgess's character lacks something. His role is to be charismatic, spontaneous TV host, experiencing both, up and downs, of living rich and famous lifestyle, but the actor simply seems to be unnatural in these situations. Supporting actors do not get much attention since One Day is two people story, but Rafe Spall (Emma's husband) and Patricia Clarkson (Dexter's mother) both fits well in their symbolic little roles, making noticeable changes in couple's lives.
One Day is terribly mediocre, moody film. It will be hard to find really good or really bad things after you left your seat, simply because it is average to death. Of course, there are promising aspects such as costumes, locations or music, but they are totally killed by shallow plot. Watching one day might appear as cozy way to spend cold autumn's evening for drama loving women, but for their men it can be painful experience.
One Day starts like all love stories do – a boy meets a girl. Two college graduates: beautiful shy girl, wearing over sized glasses, Emma (Anne Hathaway) and self confident charismatic upper-class boy Dexter (Jim Sturgess). They spend the night of July 15th together and this starts their relationship going. One Day takes time of 20 years where characters live two separate lives – Emma is trying to become a successful writer, Dexter is working for his fame as a TV host – but no matter what happens in their lives, they meet on 15th of July every year.
One day was doomed to be ordinary (means boring as hell) romance movie, but showing only one day of the year has made it interesting experience as this became key aspect of whole film. This composition enables us to see growth of couple's relationship over the flow of time. This idea sounds pretty original, however, the most of romance fans must have seen Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer, which has exactly the same concept, only the time period is shorter, so it have not involved changes of environment. Those environmental changes are probably the strongest aspect of whole movie. Hearing constantly changing nostalgic music themes (from Corona's Rhythm of the Night to Ronan Keating's Life Is A Roller-coaster), seeing advancing cars, technology and fashion in general, make this idea of passing time believable.
The main roles are entrusted to always stunning Anne Hathaway and not very well known British actor Jim Sturgess. Hathaway's solid performance is definitely huge input to movie, but Sturgess's character lacks something. His role is to be charismatic, spontaneous TV host, experiencing both, up and downs, of living rich and famous lifestyle, but the actor simply seems to be unnatural in these situations. Supporting actors do not get much attention since One Day is two people story, but Rafe Spall (Emma's husband) and Patricia Clarkson (Dexter's mother) both fits well in their symbolic little roles, making noticeable changes in couple's lives.
One Day is terribly mediocre, moody film. It will be hard to find really good or really bad things after you left your seat, simply because it is average to death. Of course, there are promising aspects such as costumes, locations or music, but they are totally killed by shallow plot. Watching one day might appear as cozy way to spend cold autumn's evening for drama loving women, but for their men it can be painful experience.