pischina
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(Originally reviewed at http://popcornandvodka.com in February 2013 for the Cinequest Film Festival.)
"I really liked this one film, it's a romantic comedy."
"Oh, that's– Wait, YOU liked a romantic comedy???"
Yes, yes I did, and that says a lot. TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE is great film without the gag-worthy love smarm. This film is about real life dating, real life relationships, and real life, flawed people. It's about not saying what you mean, and paying the consequences for it. It's about assuming things without asking questions, and living with the results. It's about working for what you want, and not giving up.
This is real life. Adult life.
Brian (Michael Ferrell) meets and loses the girl of his dreams, and spends the rest of the film looking for her and/or debating whether he's wasting his time. He's helped by his good friend Edward (Chris Prine) AND the two fictional characters of the last wretched romantic comedy he watched himself. This smug and smarmy couple keep popping up and giving him advice, but what good relationship advice can ever be gleaned from a romantic comedy?
This is a great film, and in my top 3 films of the Cinequest Film festival so far. Yes, a Rom-Com. Yes, I really liked this film. Besides a pretty original story, or at least a twist on the rom-com formula, the actors in this film are outstanding. Michael Ferrell performs a film hat trick by writing, directing AND starring in his own film, and he pulls it off with no complaints from me. Special notice goes to Tom Bartos as the skeevy but hilarious manager of the coffee shop where Brian works. And I cannot forget Devin Sanchez as the antithesis of your typical romantic comedy female. Jennifer Aniston she's not, and I'm telling you that's a GOOD thing. Devin's character, Ashley, is flawed and unintentionally causes problems, but she is also a good human being just trying to figure her way through life.
Please let us see more films from Michael Ferrell.
"I really liked this one film, it's a romantic comedy."
"Oh, that's– Wait, YOU liked a romantic comedy???"
Yes, yes I did, and that says a lot. TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE is great film without the gag-worthy love smarm. This film is about real life dating, real life relationships, and real life, flawed people. It's about not saying what you mean, and paying the consequences for it. It's about assuming things without asking questions, and living with the results. It's about working for what you want, and not giving up.
This is real life. Adult life.
Brian (Michael Ferrell) meets and loses the girl of his dreams, and spends the rest of the film looking for her and/or debating whether he's wasting his time. He's helped by his good friend Edward (Chris Prine) AND the two fictional characters of the last wretched romantic comedy he watched himself. This smug and smarmy couple keep popping up and giving him advice, but what good relationship advice can ever be gleaned from a romantic comedy?
This is a great film, and in my top 3 films of the Cinequest Film festival so far. Yes, a Rom-Com. Yes, I really liked this film. Besides a pretty original story, or at least a twist on the rom-com formula, the actors in this film are outstanding. Michael Ferrell performs a film hat trick by writing, directing AND starring in his own film, and he pulls it off with no complaints from me. Special notice goes to Tom Bartos as the skeevy but hilarious manager of the coffee shop where Brian works. And I cannot forget Devin Sanchez as the antithesis of your typical romantic comedy female. Jennifer Aniston she's not, and I'm telling you that's a GOOD thing. Devin's character, Ashley, is flawed and unintentionally causes problems, but she is also a good human being just trying to figure her way through life.
Please let us see more films from Michael Ferrell.
Tandoori Love is bright, colorful, musical, romantic, slightly violent and best of all, contains extreme close-ups of beautiful, delicious Indian food. This is fusion film-making at its best and most hilarious, and you will leave the theater desperately searching for the nearest Indian restaurant.
Sonja lives in the Swiss Alps and is engaged to Markus. Well, he hasn't actually proposed yet, or given her a ring, but he has already announced the engagement to their families. Markus seems like a nice guy if a bit of a mama's boy, and Sonja is a gorgeous Swiss Miss with very long legs and red hair.
All is going well until a Bollywood film crew sets up camp next to their chalet/restaurant. Spoiled Priya is a Bollywood diva who loves Raja, the crew cook. But Raja only has eyes for the Swiss beauty in the chalet. Markus, unaware of Raja's love for his fiancé, hires him to be the new cook for the restaurant.
And now the fun begins. The arrival of the film crew has turned all of Switzerland into a Bollywood movie. Raja makes an impromptu marriage proposal to Sonja in the supermarket and suddenly is singing a love ballad while all the Swiss customers start dancing in sync. After every declaration of love or rejection we cut to an overproduced Bollywood music video. And of course we have the standard boy meets girl, loses girl, accidentally stabs a man in the back, and then wins girl in the end. But you never know which boy and which girl will end up with whom.
This movie is just pure, enjoyable fun. There are no deep messages here, no thoughtful quandaries to think about later, it's just a fun and quite beautiful Swiss-Bollywood movie. Definitely one of my favorites at Cinequest Film Festival this year.
Sonja lives in the Swiss Alps and is engaged to Markus. Well, he hasn't actually proposed yet, or given her a ring, but he has already announced the engagement to their families. Markus seems like a nice guy if a bit of a mama's boy, and Sonja is a gorgeous Swiss Miss with very long legs and red hair.
All is going well until a Bollywood film crew sets up camp next to their chalet/restaurant. Spoiled Priya is a Bollywood diva who loves Raja, the crew cook. But Raja only has eyes for the Swiss beauty in the chalet. Markus, unaware of Raja's love for his fiancé, hires him to be the new cook for the restaurant.
And now the fun begins. The arrival of the film crew has turned all of Switzerland into a Bollywood movie. Raja makes an impromptu marriage proposal to Sonja in the supermarket and suddenly is singing a love ballad while all the Swiss customers start dancing in sync. After every declaration of love or rejection we cut to an overproduced Bollywood music video. And of course we have the standard boy meets girl, loses girl, accidentally stabs a man in the back, and then wins girl in the end. But you never know which boy and which girl will end up with whom.
This movie is just pure, enjoyable fun. There are no deep messages here, no thoughtful quandaries to think about later, it's just a fun and quite beautiful Swiss-Bollywood movie. Definitely one of my favorites at Cinequest Film Festival this year.
