Getting to Know You

If you ever come across this movie in search for a genuine heartfelt love story, you really don't have to look any further... This was very much in line with films like Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise", where the dialog flows so naturally along the movie and the connection between the main characters is so palpable that you sometimes even forget about the storyline; you feel as if you are right there with them and even begin to feel the same feelings. It's just wonderful. If one of the main objectives of a film is to move you, then this one gets top marks. You could guess this movie wasn't made on a particularly high budget, but you definitely don't feel it throughout: good sound, good photography, great actors... Very well done. Highly recommended.

I saw this movie on Amazon Prime and decided to give it a try. I was ambivalent about my expectations. It could have been just some silly slapstick, or an over the top attempt at humor, or overly sappy. It avoids all of that. While the story line might be slightly implausible, in the long run, the characters act appropriately. I wanted the story in end differently, but the ending I wanted would have been too cliche, so kudos to the director and writers for avoiding it.

I don't believe I had seen any of the actors before, so I had no expectations. The cast did not disappoint.

Overall, it's a really good movie.

Natasha Little, Rupert Penny-Jones, and Rachel Blanchard star in this well made film. The trick that works is the visible chemistry between Little and Penny-Jones. That tension never realized builds like a forest fire that consumes everything. Their attraction is so explosive that the screen is filled with that unrealized love. This is the first time I have seen something so tangible that is unrequited. There is a lesson in the power of not acting out a momentous emotion until the final moment is consumed by the longest most gentle, lingering kiss. This is a perfect love story where no intercourse interferes.

If you ever encountered someone for a brief period and wondered 'what if', you will enjoy this film. Not hilarious, but some comical moments and no sap. Recommend.

This movie had a lot of potential. I think had they spent more time on the script and tried to make the story more plausible it would have been a great movie.

This would probably make a great stage play because these types of coincidental encounters are a bit more believable watching with a laughing crowd. Most likely, the writer probably was used to watching plays and writing for that type of audience.

The music was very repititive and many times tried way to hard to influence the audience to cue them what should be ahppening next. What that ended up doing was to leave a lot of the mystery about what might happen next disappear. For instance, any time talk started to veer in a serious direction he piano came out, and when something was supposed to be funny it seemed like slapstick music.

All those things being said, I stuck through watching it because I liked the concept of the story.