L'Art de tomber amoureux

source: Art of Falling in Love

Bon film !

I liked the concept of the movie and really wanted to like it but this girl constantly eye rolled at the guy and overreacted to everything. Her fake positive attitude was exhausting. She overly acted being happy and positive then in less than a second she throws a fit when he asks her about her health. The guy should not be apologizing at all. He was not wrong about his ex pregnant wife who lied, cheated, and wronged him. The girl is throwing a fit over things she didn't need to, completely overlooked actual health scares she should be worrying about, and what are these magical pills she's on that causes her to be completed cured?! Cannot stand this girl!! The guy is saying sorry to you and you are rolling your dumb eyes. I would give this a one star but the guy saved it and his acting was so much better. A different actress would make this story a lot better. I also don't think the bunny would live that long and probably send this girl into deep depression. This girl did not open up to him, she avoids all conversations, but mumbles Samantha constantly like a ghost! It's not a secret she's treating it to be. She didn't even thank him for saving her when she passed out and basically looked dead. So no he does not need to say sorry for anything. Run from this girl. This is a sad life to live. I wouldn't be able to watch her poor acting in this movie again.

This is my first review I've ever chosen to do. I am a huge fan of this genre of movie. I typically prefer "up and up", without the sad (except for some heartbreak of course). But this story, and these 2 actors, made me feel things, wonderful things! Great movie! Kimberly-Sue Murray you are truly an artist!!

Didn't really connect with these characters. She's spoiled and acts like it's all about her. He's wounded and lashing out altho he apologises she never really does. Wouldn't recommend.

This one started out strongly . I liked Kimberley Sue Murray in Love Upstream. There's something about curly red hair.... and she was very funny and likable. The hero I wasn't familiar with, but I liked his down to earth normal guy looks. It appeared that it was going to go out of the box a bit as there was a bit of a very subtle Christian theme, and the heroine is seen getting alarming dizzy spells and popping prescription pills. Hmmmm... this might be interesting. Vanessa (Murray) is an artist who is gets commissions to paint murals on hospital walls that she doesn't charge for. She is famous and acclaimed and travels all over the country. She is working on a mural for a children's wing that Nate designed and she overhears him saying he isn't sure it fits in with his vision. OOh them's fightin' words. She spunkily tells him the mural is not for him but for the sick children. Good one, Vanessa! Of course he apologizes and they make up and and the love story commences. We learn through flashbacks that she had cancer and was very close with another cancer patient who died. The dead one is her "guardian angel" and she also left Vanessa a trust fund and a list of activities (take tango lessons, go rock climbing, go scuba diving, take a cooking class, fall in love, get married, stuff like that) to live life to the fullest. She shows him the list and he innocently calls it a bucket list. She freezes up. This is the first in a long line of her giving him the cold shoulder over something she takes offense to or some innocent infraction of her precious privacy. Things go down hill from there, for me. Despite feeling the attraction and connection (whenever she is by herself she swans around and simpers with happiness at the thought of him) she often acts standoffish and demanding when with him. She will not share and is so closed off and secretive about her past that he thinks she is dying rather than recovering from an illness. He himself is just recovering from a divorce because his wife cheated on him. So he is vulnerable and not into secrets. When he finds her passed out on the floor, a side effect of her medication, he begs her to open herself up and let him in. She states petulantly that she is not ready and says something along the lines of it is her prerogative and her life to live as she pleases. When he replies, "Well I'll leave you to it then," and leaves, I almost cheered. She sees she went a little too far with her mess and apologizes. Her nonsensical hot and cold behavior continues until it all comes to a head. He finds out his ex-wife, who refused to have children with him, is pregnant. He is hurt and angry and leaves town to take care of a building emergency in Boston. Finally sick and tired of Vanessa's predilection to take offence at every little thing and lack of openness, trust, and honesty, he cuts her off. Meanwhile she learns she has a clean bill of health and accepts another commission in Vermont. He comes back, and she is sulky about his treatment of her (even though she tells his mother she doesn't blame him) and he APOLOGIZES AGAIN. I swear, he is a glutton for punishment because she "forgives" him (after torturing him some more) and they get married. At the end I positively hated her which is why I gave this a failing grade despite it's strong points. Shout out to Kelly Bishop of the Gilmore girls who played Nate's mother, the misguided matchmaker.

This movie isn't sunshine and roses, it is about a real romance that includes divorce and illness. BUT like any good romance there is still a happily ever after. The mural in the film is beautiful and Kimberly-Sue Murray shows a lot of range in this film.

...I wonder if they share in the payout when it's sold to foreign territories?

Yes, the main character has gone through a lot but wow is she miserable!! She is closed off, secretive, irritable, unforgiving, all over the place emotionally...just thoroughly unlikable. She expects the world from the man interested in her (who is also hurting) but refuses to let him in. She doesn't want a relationship with him but blows up when he leaves suddenly after devastating news. Just all over the place and generally disappointing!

This made for TV Movie is LOOSELY based of THE LAST CHANCE MAVERICK by CHRISTYNE BUTLER. The premise of two broken people is still in this uptv/Hallmark movie, but the situations are so different. The book is about JONAH and VANESSA. Vanessa is new to Rust Creek Falls, and Jonah/Jonathan, is back after eight years. Both of them are wounded, and in the book, Vanessa, her friend Adele's recent death devastated her, making her almost lose all ability to paint. The take of the movie is quite different. I agree with phd-travel, the approach is quite gloomy, but there are lots of inspirational stuff here and there. KIMBERLY-SUE MURRAY is so beautiful. It's so understandable why as Vanessa, Nate Dalton would be smitten. She is a traveling artist here, painting it forward, because she was blessed by her best friend, SAMANTHA(Adele in the book), with her trust fund, and a bucket list. JOSH DEAN is not bad to look at, but at first I thought Ms. Murray was too gorgeous for him, but he grows on you. Later in the movie I saw the balance, and other reviewers elsewhere saw it too(I don't wanna pretend I didn't read other reviews). They do have something beautiful going. Conflicts here and there, but you would also grow to love the people around them. The kids(I just hope a certain kid did not try to show he was painting, because it became obvious somebody else painted it), Iris (KELLY BISHOP), Wallace(MICHAEL BROWN), and Carolyn(LILY GAO) plus dear Dr. Lawrence(MÉLANIE ST-PIERRE) are characters that became dear to me while watching this movie. There were some lines that I questioned and made me thing, "So now that she's ____ he..." What else? Oh, those people who always complain about "cliffhanger" kisses won't be kissed deprived here. I guess that's it. Thanks for your time.