One Day [DVD] [2011]

Much prefer this version . Lovely romance

Danish screenwriter and director Lone Scherfig`s seventh feature film was written by English author and screenwriter David Nicholls and is and adaptation of his novel "One Day" from 2009. It was produced by American film executive Nina Jacobson and shot on location in Edinburgh, Scotland, London, England and Dinard and Paris, France. It tells the story about Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who meet each other in Edinburgh on the 15th of July in 1988 after their graduation and spends the night together. Before going their separate ways, Emma and Dexter agrees to only be friends. In 1990, Dexter is travelling the world having numerous relationships and Emma is working as a waitress in a Mexican restaurant in Kentish Town, London. Emma and Dexter meets again and remains close friends, but when Dexter becomes a television host and Emma meets a comedian named Ian, they drift apart.This character-driven USA-UK co-production, subtly directed by Lone Scherfig, has some ardent milieu depictions which emphasizes the films romantic atmosphere and draws a moving and involving portrayal of a lasting relationship that spans from 1988 to 2011 between a man and a woman in their early thirties who are in love, but holds on to their decision about only being friends. Well-paced and with a flashback narrative structure that focuses on the characters whereabouts on the 15th of July as years pass by, this drama examines themes like faith, loneliness, compromises, friendship and love.Notable for its fine cinematography by French cinematographer Benoit Delhomme and with a significant score by English composer Rachel Portman, this charming independent film works both as a partly engaging study of character that grows stronger in the second half of the film and a humorous and compelling love-story and is impelled and reinforced by the reverent and empathic acting performances by English actor Jim Sturgess, American actress Anne Hathaway and English actor Rafe Spall, Scottish actor Ken Stott and English actress Romola Garai`s good supporting acting performances.

One Day starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess is a film which I would recommend to all those like to watch the romantics on the box. Not only was it a film which kept my attention throughout because of the wonderful script and the witty dialogue especially from Anne Hathaway and along with the wonderful acting from the other main character Jim Sturgess it really was an exceptional film which will be a favourite of mine for a long time to come.I know I do not have to say what the film is all about as the book is famous throughout the world but I can honestly say this DVD is worth purchasing as along with the wonderful film included in the DVD is extras which really are worthwhile watching. There is deleted scenes which I do believe should have been left in the film as they really added to the actual film as they included scenes from the hotel which were very funny but there is one scene particularly which showed how far down the main character Dex really fell before he realised what he was doing wrong with his life. Also there is interviews with the writer, main actors and those that made the film which really are worth watching.This is a film not just a love story between two characters developing over twenty years but it is also a film which showed two people who had to find their own identity before they actually found each other. Though they met every year through the twenty years they were apart it give each of them a glimpse of what they were missing in their lives but they had their own growing up to do which really affects everyone of us through the course of our lives and with some people it takes a lot of failing before they finally realise what they are good at and what they are missing in their lives.I loved everything about this DVD and maybe because I watched the film before I read the book meant I enjoyed it more than other people but I do not believe this is the case as the same author wrote the script as well as the main book.If you want a good film which you just want to relax with and not have to think too much about this is the film for you but I must warn you if you are anything like me have a box of tissues near hand as I do believe you will need them...

Love this film more than the book and tv show, it is just so much better.

Not as good as the new series but definitely worth a watch

This has become one of my go-to movies in recent times. It is beautifully filmed with real feeling for the couple. It is a look at Emma and Dex as they go through 20 years of life, looking at the same day each year. Emma was well played by the lovely Anne Hathaway, settled, feet on the ground. Jim Sturgess plays Dexter, very much a 'lad', hedonistic, looking for the next thing but eventually is brought down to earth through difficult and tragic experiences.One of the highlights was the wonderful score by Rachel Portman. If there was one fly in the ointment, as far as I am concerned, it was with the end-title music. It would seem fitting to me to finish with a 'full-on' version of Rachel Portman's theme you hear throughout the movie, which is absolutely beautiful and fitting, but I found that Elvis Costello's 'Sparkling Day' just didn't fit, regardless to how appropriate the words may have been. It has a completely different sound and feel and it jarred with me. If it was incidental music it would be OK but not the main feature on the end-titles. If there is ever a Director's Cut version I hope they will reconsider the end-title music. I would buy that version.

Story line a little predictable but I liked the humour and it was a beautiful account of the paths of two people lives who eventually become one for a short time.Great watch would recommend.

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