La muse de l'artiste

I watched this again, well part of it. The male lead character is written as such a pathetic clod, I just couldn't stand to watch it. Why any woman would be pining after him alludes me. The more he revealed, the less appealing he became. Don't waste your time thinking it will get better.

The acting is horrible. So predictable and unrealistic.

These are the Hallmark movies I love. Some might say it's slow or boring, but I say these are the stories that you fall into and have time to develop the characters, the backstory and the relationships. The casting was perfect. Jason plays the broken, tortured character so well so this part was made for him. I always loved Bree from OLTL, she fit into her role very well. She's obviously very pretty, but she played it down. I love how she was the insecure, heart broken sad girl..that gets me very time. I loved all the supporting characters as well. Usually the "friend" doesn't get her own story, so I was very pleased we got to get to know her as well and see her life outside of supporting the main character. I believed all the relationships, mother/daughter, father/mother, grandmother/grandmother. The acting was good all around. 4 out of 5 stars. Taking off a star because I would have liked a conversation where they discuss why he let her go in high school. Overall, so well done. This is why I watch Hallmark films.

IMDB tells you "Portrait of Love" is a rename of "Heart of the Matter", which is now available on Amazon through PixL, but beware, "Heart of the Matter" is a castrated hollow shell of "Portrait of Love".

I cannot tell if the reviews here on IMDB are for "portrait" or "Heart". But "Portrait of Love" is worthy of every good thing said here. "Heart" is worth the trash can. "Heart of the Matter" is a lame, inferior, incomplete cut. A waste of time compared to "Portrait of Love". You want the original "Portrait of Love" or nothing.

I had 0 expectations about this movie. However it turned out very okay. There were a few mistakes regarding the camera and the movements of the characters that one can see very easily. The female lead was pretty good, but the guy... I don't know, I like him, but I was waiting for the moment where he would scream or something!

What I loved about this was the fact that they had history: there was a moment in which they were arguing and for a moment I thought I was gonna cry. Pretty realistic the way these characters treated each other considering they had a past, but I would have loved to know more about them. You know there is this one smart elder person in each movie that guides the leads towards each other? There wasn't one in specific here, but that was the girl's job - who did an amazing job even though she could be quite loud and annoying sometimes - and I really like that!

Not Hallmark's best, but I actually enjoyed it!