Strange there aren't any posts about this movie.
I remember seing it, while changing channels a sunday morning - At the end while the credits where roling I ordered it on DVD. I think it's a very heart warming movie about love, not having the typical "silly twist" as most movies about love have these days. "Falling in Love" feels more sincere.
It sure deserves a higher rating then was it has. I'd give it a strong 8/10
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I absoultey agree, while it's not quite up there with classics such as Brief Encounter or Love Story it is a beautiful and touching film.
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I agree with you!
shareYes...I agree. And, one who absolutely has no respect for philanderers, this film actually "sympathizes" with them in a convincing, I guess realistic way. I just hate the sneaking around of real philanderers. I believe that in this film, we never really see them even make love...they tried for it once, at the apartment of his friend, but don't go through with it. Are we supposed to think that later, at some point in the film, they finally did consummate their love? I don't think they did, actually. I know we never see them do it, anyway. It's been a while since I've seen it. Anyway, it didn't do as well here as it did in Europe, which makes sense, because it was overall a somewhat "quiet" film, by American standards. I loved it. Streep and DeNiro...two acting goliaths in a wonderful little script.
shareI agree. This is a lovely, overlooked little gem of a movie.
shareWhen DeNiro told his wife about loving another woman, he told her that they had not had sex. He probably thought is was a way to say that they hadn't gone that far. But, she responded, "No, that's worse." meaning, it must be love, if they could hold off the sex.
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I love this movie, having seen it 6 times. Not much dialogue in it, but I love the chemistry between Streep and DeNiro. I guess a reason could be why it didn't make it was the content, storyline. Two married people, falling in love with others, breaking up their marriages..?
shareI love this movie, having seen it 6 times. Not much dialogue in it, but I love the chemistry between Streep and DeNiro. I guess a reason could be why it didn't 'make it big' was the content, storyline. Two married people, falling in love with others, breaking up their marriages..?
shareI don't think it didn't make money because the subject was infidelity. Yes, this movie did focus on the affair, which many times is simply treated perhaps as an aside or just a given in other films, but I really don't think it was the subject per se for which it didn't do as well in the States. I really think it's because it was a very quiet, realistic, slice-of-life type of film. Quiet films weren't as much in fashion in the 80's in the US. So many "successful" films of this decade in the US seemed to be loud, rather over-produced, bloated MTV-inspired pieces of garbage during this decade, in my opinion. Certainly not all of them, by any means. But, the decade overall was just not as refined. It started with a BANG with Raging Bull, and certainly had some other good films in between (Terms of Endearment, Mortal Thoughts (also underrated, I think...even though I've hated Demi Moore and Bruce Willis in just about everything else they've ever done)). I don't know, but I think one of our best periods of film-making, in the States, was the '70's. It was our "New Wave" decade, much as the '60's were to France and the rest of Europe, for the most part. Any way, "Falling in Love" was definitely comparatively a "quiet little film", and didn't get a lot of press or anything. I absolutely loved it at the time, and still like it very much. I know it by heart, practically.
shareI agree with you , but what to do . The important thing that there are some people who know how much beatiful this movie is .