求助Notting Hill 的英文影评

Julia Roberts is Julia Roberts – almost – in Notting Hill, a well-crafted romantic comedy from the geniuses behind Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The deceptively simple plot begins when uber-famous film star Anna Scott (Roberts) winds up in William’s (Grant) book shop on Notting Hill, something of a British cross between a pre-Disney Times Square and a Moroccan street market. After William accidentally dumps orange juice down Anna’s front, an on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again, on-again love affair blossoms.

Using Anna’s (and Julia’s) celebrity as a catalyst, the plot is propelled along by run-ins with the press and paparazzi, the duplicity “required” of a big film star, secret love affairs on the side, world travel, and buttinsky PR flacks. It’s amazing that Anna comes off as likeable at all, but with EveryBrit Grant as her foil, it’s hard not to fall for her in the end. Of course.

So far, sounds like an everyday comedy – but Notting Hill win