Rosaline
Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
- Released: 2022-10-11
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
- Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Kyle Allen, Sean Teale, Minnie Driver, Bradley Whitford, Henry Hunter Hall, Spencer Rayshon Stevenson, Nico Hiraga, Christopher McDonald, Mercedes Colon, Alistair Toovey, Nicholas Rowe, Valentina Carnelutti, Alhaji Fofana
- Director: Karen Maine
Comments
- bfdrhc - 16 March 2023
Good visual with a spoonful of comic but nothing special.
I saw the YouTube trailer, and was interested. But literally all the interesting part was in the trailer. I kept waiting for more but nothing really happened. The only thing that kept me watching till the end was visual. And the premise, and the concept. It was interesting to shed light on Rosaline, but literally they didn't say anything significant. Like she was a bit jealous, but she got over it and fall in love with another guy? It was promising in the beginning, but the character development fall flat. After Juliette came in to the picture - the story was about Romeo and Juliet, which is complete opposite of what I was expecting. At the end it wanted to cover up the story with the comical, but that fall flat as well. The visual were good til the end, but bad use of the medium. - simonssonclara - 10 December 2022
Great acting and love the new take
Actually phenomenal casting, but also such a nice change from the common romcoms. Didn't expect this to be as well written as it was! Think the movie should get some more notice!! I would have liked more of the veronian scenery though as I actually didn't get the feeling that the movie tried to play out in Verona. It is just such a beautiful scenery so would be so nice to see more of the city of Verona. But other than that: suberb.
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spoofing Romeo and Juliet
In Verona, Rosaline (Kaitlyn Dever) falls for Romeo despite their warring families. Her cousin Juliet (Isabela Merced) visits and Romeo becomes less interested in her. He starts dating Juliet instead. Her father Adrian (Bradley Whitford) seeks to find a husband for Rosaline despite her protestation. He does eventually send her Dario (Sean Teale). Janet (Minnie Driver) is her nurse.
I don't like the opening balcony scene. I don't like making Romeo a fool. I get the idea for comedic effect, but it puts me off. It puts me off for a while. The comedy does not hit initially. Steve the Courier annoyed me. A lot of this bug me until Kaitlyn Dever starts taking down the story itself. She has good comedic skills and the movie finally puts them to good use. The last act is actually quite funny and then it's dumb and then it's funny. It alternates back and forth. It's fun. - criscal - 19 October 2022
Was fun, but could have been more
The character of Rosaline is actually not an invention of the filmmakers. As in the play, she is Juliet's cousin and Romeo's prior love and in hope of meeting Rosaline, Romeo is going to the masquerade ball, where he meets Juliet. The main actors are quite likable, the idea is principally pretty good with telling the "real" story, mixing it up a bit with "The Taming of the Shrew" and a bit of flair of Shakespeare in Love. Despite the historical looking outfit and the nice locations - seems to have been shot in and around San Gimigiano - it feels like a highschool romance comedy. The script execution is not quite that well done and many jokes fall just flat. I would have liked it better, if a lot of the silly jokes would have been just removed from the script and more effort had been put into the verbal sparring between Rosaline and her counterpart.
