I love vintage movies and will this work for me? The answer was a resounding yes. Although some scenes or acting can seem be quirky but it's just enough to bring you back to the style of directing or acting within the time they purport them to be.
I was amazed by how Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger can pull off as a couple in the 60s much more do some dance and sing routines.
McGregor plays a women's or woman's man Catcher Block, a successful writer for the magazine Know. Known for his outrageous and being notorious with the ladies, he comes here as a "catch" really. meanwhile Zellwegger is a country girl turned best selling author Barbara Novak who comes to New York. Her book is named "Down with Love" and literal to its title, Barbara downs love and focuses more on sex instead. Why would men only hold monopoly on sex, her book lists down the process for the women to downplay love and eventually lead one to have sex "ala carte".
Catcher was supposed to interview Novak but his worldly ways has him postponing all the times he was supposed to do so. This made Novak furious and even branding him on live television as the "Worst Kind of Man". A man who doesn't believe in love and that it was about time that women too must be a "Down with Love" kind of an individual.
In efforts to retaliate, Catcher believes that Novak was spurned with love and vows he will find out who that guy was. He went undercover as Zip Martin, an astronaut, and so backward, a true opposite of who is trying to win Novak's trust.
In the process of uncovering the truth behind Novak, Zip or Catcher was caught in his own web. He slowly falls in love with Novak. Near the end, he finally learns who "spurned" Novak. We don't want to spoil the ending part as this is an interesting movie to watch. Its not normal watching a 1960s inspired story line and the directing it according to the style of the era. Glad they didn't update the directorial style or else this would have lost its charm.
Showing currently on Amazon Prime.
