Love is all you Need

On Monday evening, I went to see a pre-view of the new film "Love is all you Need" at the Odeon in Wimbledon.

As usual, the cinema was packed, with only a few spare seat in the front rows; arriving after six o'clock, I was lucky to get a fairly central seat in the fourth row from the front.  

The film was basically a romantic story, subtitled in English where the dialogue was in Swedish.    Stangely, although I used to speak a bit of Norwegian, and could pick out words in Swedish, the only one I understood was "gamle" (old).  

The woman (Trina Dyrholdm) is recovering from cancer when she discovers that her boorish husband is being unfaithful with one of the young girls from his office.   She is understandably upset but doesn't want to leave her marriage, and arranges to go to Italy for the wedding of her daughter.  Parking her car at the airport, she unknowingly collides with the father of the groom (Pierce Brosnan), who is also on the way to the wedding, where they both join the young couple at an old villa which belongs to Pierce Brosnan.   Later, they are joined by Trina's husband, together with his latest love from the office.

But things are not all that they seem between the young couple, and it transpires that he fancies the men and is only getting married to please his father.    So end of the wedding plans!    Everyone returns home, and Trina's husband tries to buy his way out of his predicament with offers of expensive presents, holidays, etc.    Trina suddenly realises just how awful he really is, and when she receives a letter from the hospital about her cancer, flies off to the villa in Italy as she doesn't want to open it alone.   Fortunately, everything is fine, and the film ends with her and widower Pierce together.

A sweet, romantic story, with a modern day twist and lots of touching scenes.