Born Romantic

Born Romantic 2001

• Director: David Kane
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Craig Ferguson, Catherine McCormack, Jimi Mistry, David Morrisey, Olivia Williams, Paddy Considine
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jane Horrocks – Absolutely Fabulous, Sunshine on Leith, Gracie, Little Voice, Life Is Sweet
• Adrian Lester – London Spy, Hustle, Merlin, Bonekicker, As You Like It, Day After Tomorrow, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost
• Craig Ferguson – Saving Grace
• Catherine McCormack – Sherlock, 28 Weeks Later, Braveheart
• Jimi Mistry – 2012, Blood Diamond, Ella Enchanted, The Guru, East is East, Hamlet
• David Morrisey – The Hollow Crown, South Riding, Nowhere Boy, Doctor Who, The Other Boleyn Girl, Blackpool, Hilary & Jackie
• Olivia Williams – Victoria and Abdul, Hanna, The Ghost Writer, An Education, X-Men the Last Stand, Tara Road, To Kill a King, Friends
• Paddy Considine – The Journeyman, The Girl with All the Gifts, Macbeth, Pride, The World’s End, Hot Fuzz, My Summer of Love, In America, 24 Hour Party People
• Why? Horrocks and Lester
• Seen: Twice before. Now 23 May 2020

        A dance school, a failed robbery, a cabby who watches and listen and sometimes converses and advises, a search for a lost love and London by night. And day.

       It’s just a collage of slightly connected love stories, looking for love stories, used to be love stories, avoiding love stories, happily (maybe) married love stories.

       The film is bittersweet. Many of the actors are favourites and it is pleasant entertainment but sadly, I’m not romantic.

3 ½ * of 5

PS No doubt I’ll watch it a fourth time someday, and maybe a fifth.