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To me, this movie is perfection.

The Worst Film Ever

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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ida is a Danish woman near the end of her successful chemotherapy treatment. She gets home early and finds her husband Leif having sex with young Thilde. She is in shock when she crashes into Philip Saunders (Pierce Brosnan) at the airport parking. She is on her way to her daughter Astrid's wedding in Italy. Phillip turns out to be the father of Astrid's fiancée Patrick. He is bitter and closed off after the death of his wife. Ida tries to keep the situation secret from Astrid and then Leif shows up at the wedding with Thilde. The wedding includes gay worker Alessandro who has a crush on Patrick, Astrid's injured brother Kenneth returning from the military, Philip's rude flirtatious sister-in-law Benedikte and her bitter suffering daughter.Ida is a compelling character and Trine Dyrholm does a nice job. I like her story. Pierce Brosnan is a bit of a Hollywood distraction but I understand his use. Eventually, I got used to him and their relationship is good romance. There are a lot of crazy relatives going off in that wedding and a couple of them could have less screen time. There's no reason to spend so much time with Benedikte and her daughter. They are one-dimensional comedic side characters. Ida's struggles make this a good romance despite a few too many dramatic developments at the wedding.

a really bad film for a good director like Susanne Bier. I was very disappointed, this film is full of stereotypes. It's predictable and the characters are fake and unbelievable, cinematography is an incredible series of post cards. The acting is very poor and it couldn't be otherwise with such bi dimensional characters. I guess a good director like Bier must have had some crisis in doing such a bad film, I hope she realizes this is her worst film. I believe she is a good director and I appreciated her film Brothers very much, I wonder what has happened this time. I believe she really must have had some very superficial ideas about Italy and Italians.

I liked Susanne Bier's earlier films, but her later work has become more conventional, and not in a good way. There are standard elements to many mainstream romantic comedies, and sadly, her film 'Love Is All You Need' uses several off-the shelf-elements: the Darcy-esque male (played by Pierce Brosnan, looking startlingly like Ronald Regan), superficially arrogant and possessed of enough money to allow a fantasy setting; the heroic characters' unworthy rivals for love, the ghastly relative painted utterly without sympathy. It says a lot that the key moment in this film is of the Darcy character, who has everything, telling his dreadful sister in law how awful she is; the film seems less interested in what makes people "bad" than in the nuisance they cause for everybody else. Although there are some original components to the story, principally its trilingual Italian-Danish-English structure, this mainly feels like a device to add a little bit of glamour, rather than any depth.

There is a reason to be happy about Pierce Brosnen humbly accepting to play the role of Phillip .In America there are few models for doing grief work and few models for manhood.Phillip is a knight without armor in the way he sees Ida a cancer survivor as well as his gay son. His eyes see up to the skies and down to the seas. Mourning and melancholia is complicated and Pierce in real life has experienced this.I am reminded of the 12 step program: life is unmanageable, I cannot control things, I am not God and have to rely on a power greater than myself.Phillip could play God in this film. After all he is paying for his son's wedding and Ida asks him to read the letter regarding her final prognosis.Instead, Phillip reacts peacefully and humbly by making observations rather than emotionally reacting.Isn't that what adults do?I am still taking notes on how to respond to betrayals that have occurred for me over 15 years ago!Yes in the end, love is all we need and we either fall into His everlasting arms or not.I left the film feeling more love, joy and hope for the future!