What Love Looks Like

If you love romantic comedies, this is for you. The film follows five different characters looking for love. The projections and misperceptions we all make about one another. Attraction and that special spark and then really getting to see who someone is. Love is such a universal theme that I think everyone will relate to this film. It was very well directed and acted. A fun date night movie.

"First off, I would rename this film "What does falling in love look like." It's more about how the young fall in love. About the longing for a companion that accepts you, no matter how nerdy or shy or seemingly insensitive you may appear to be. Some of these couples shouldn't have found a way to make it work but in the movies, things tend to work out in the end. I felt it wrapped up a bit quick and with a running time of only 85 minutes, the film could risked a few more minutes to make the stories wrap up at bit more realistically. My last wish is for the filmmakers to shoot a sequel in 5 years with the same 5 couples and show us what Love Really Looks Like. The meeting is the easy part, the making it work is what life is all about. Still a sweet comfortable film.

It is clear they paid attention to sound and lighting, giving this project a high production value, and for an independent film, this is a pleasant surprise. The acting, and writing, wasn't always desirable, occasionally directing my pupils to the nearest clock, but the pros outweighed the cons in this regard, especially near the end.

In this story, we get to follow five separate relationships, two of which felt redundant, or perhaps uninteresting would be the term, but luckily, they still had three strong story lines to keep our attention. Love stories need characters worth investing in, and I'm happy to report the three aforementioned couples were investment worthy.

With a title as absolute as, "What Love Looks Like," for a film made in 2020, one would think there would be at least one gay couple, and being as there were two expendable couples, both hetero, it's not like they ran out of room. Although the lack of preference diversity did hurt the overall rating for me, it did not affect the validity of the three aforementioned relationship stories.

In short, all this film needs is to clean up the script a little, allow the actors a little more time to explore their characters, and to replace two of the couples with one gay couple, male or female, and we'll have ourselves a 10'er!

A really well done Indie RomCom that leaves you with a good feeling. Great cast with loads of interesting characters. Recommend a watch!

One of those rare films that hits all the right emotional notes! It's not often a film can make me laugh, cry and fall in love. Bravo!