And love stories. This is a really tricky one. I don't really do romance particularly and love stories are more incidental to the stories I like than an integral part on the whole. So what to include. Hmmm!
Here goes:
1. The Princess Bride. Okay, this is cheating, because it's as much a joke about love stories as it is a love story. But nonetheless, since I'm struggling, I'm going to count it. 2. A Matter of Life and Death - David Niven is the WWII pilot seemingly killed when his Lancaster is shot down. However, a mix up in the afterlife means that he lives on and only the true love of Kim Hunter is able to save him when the afterlife tries to claim him. 3. June Carter and Johnny Cash - You didn't say they had to be fictional love stories. 4. Juno. Okay, not purely a love story, but at its heard there's a few love stories - the love of mother for child and the love story between Juno and Paulie Bleeker. Offbeat romance, maybe, but I'm still counting it. 5. Lost in Translation. Very much a story about love and making a connection, although whether it's a story about sexual or physical love over spiritual love is up to interpretation.
Moulin Rouge just misses out for playing the overblown, tragic love, everyone dies schtick of Romeo and Juliet just a little too hard, even though Ewan McGregor is as adorable as a puppy in a pile of kittens.
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Here goes:
1. The Princess Bride. Okay, this is cheating, because it's as much a joke about love stories as it is a love story. But nonetheless, since I'm struggling, I'm going to count it.
2. A Matter of Life and Death - David Niven is the WWII pilot seemingly killed when his Lancaster is shot down. However, a mix up in the afterlife means that he lives on and only the true love of Kim Hunter is able to save him when the afterlife tries to claim him.
3. June Carter and Johnny Cash - You didn't say they had to be fictional love stories.
4. Juno. Okay, not purely a love story, but at its heard there's a few love stories - the love of mother for child and the love story between Juno and Paulie Bleeker. Offbeat romance, maybe, but I'm still counting it.
5. Lost in Translation. Very much a story about love and making a connection, although whether it's a story about sexual or physical love over spiritual love is up to interpretation.
Moulin Rouge just misses out for playing the overblown, tragic love, everyone dies schtick of Romeo and Juliet just a little too hard, even though Ewan McGregor is as adorable as a puppy in a pile of kittens.