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Alex is a charming, funny, and effortlessly cool professional break-up artist with just ten days to sabotage the relationship of a seemingly perfect couple. But with one of his targets, the beautiful, feisty and independent Juliette, will he find that when it comes to love the perfect plan doesn't always exist? Starring Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis and Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually), and set to an amazing soundtrack including Dirty Dancing's '(I've Had) The Time of My Life', Heartbreaker is a wildly funny and passionate tale that will leave you on a tantalising high.
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Charming is really the word that springs to mind. Alex runs a business based on his hiring (usually by rich fathers/brothers) to break up unsuitable relationships. This time he is hired to seduce a French heiress and consequently prevent her from marrying a young Englishman. He has one week to succeed.
Is this movie original, ground-breaking and multi-layered? No, of course not, and it wouldn't be fair to expect it to be. Is this movie fun, heart-warming and a real break from reality? Absolutely, and it delivers in spades.
After several darker movies (The Beat my Heart Skipped being his most notable effort) Romain Duris returns to lighter fares and proves effortlessly that he is one of today's most promising French actors. He's way too toothy to be traditionally handsome, and yet he is incredibly seducing and completely credible in the role of a professional heartbreaker. As for Vanessa, well anybody who's seen her in movies before will know what to expect: very talented, very sweet, very pretty and very French.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey even if you know the destination.
Is this movie original, ground-breaking and multi-layered? No, of course not, and it wouldn't be fair to expect it to be. Is this movie fun, heart-warming and a real break from reality? Absolutely, and it delivers in spades.
After several darker movies (The Beat my Heart Skipped being his most notable effort) Romain Duris returns to lighter fares and proves effortlessly that he is one of today's most promising French actors. He's way too toothy to be traditionally handsome, and yet he is incredibly seducing and completely credible in the role of a professional heartbreaker. As for Vanessa, well anybody who's seen her in movies before will know what to expect: very talented, very sweet, very pretty and very French.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey even if you know the destination.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By AP
Format:Blu-ray
funny, charming, great characters and better plot. Alsmost had a mission impossible or james bond feel to it which actually worked very well. Breath of fresh air compared to all the predictable hollywood romcoms. highly recommended for all
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Anyone who knows me will tell you that this is not my usual kind of film. I write, watch and live horror, that is what I do. I only watch rom-coms because I am a happily married man with a wife who loves this kind of film. Being the loving husband I almost always sit and watch with her (although I draw the line at the appauling Sleepless in Seattle and the sickening You've got Mail).
Every now and then a rom-com comes along that I quietly admit to enjoying, finding it has enough humour in it to appeal to me.
With this in mind I sat down to watch Heartbreaker ready to be either bored or sent into a coma... How wrong I was.
From the opening it is clear that this film has been made by a team with a love for what they are doing. The script is well written, superbly paced and very funny. The acting is solid, with each character given life by the actors and actresses behind them and the visual style is pure eye candy.
This film has more than one stand out moment but I hate to give any spoilers. Needles to say that when our leading lady's car is "stolen" and our hero appears on the scene there was a cheer from the audience in our house.
I would like you once again to take into account my opening statement about being a horror writer, watcher and all round fan and then believe me when I say that Heartbreaker goes straight into my top three films of 2010, right between Blood River and The Horde... That is how good this film is.
Every now and then a rom-com comes along that I quietly admit to enjoying, finding it has enough humour in it to appeal to me.
With this in mind I sat down to watch Heartbreaker ready to be either bored or sent into a coma... How wrong I was.
From the opening it is clear that this film has been made by a team with a love for what they are doing. The script is well written, superbly paced and very funny. The acting is solid, with each character given life by the actors and actresses behind them and the visual style is pure eye candy.
This film has more than one stand out moment but I hate to give any spoilers. Needles to say that when our leading lady's car is "stolen" and our hero appears on the scene there was a cheer from the audience in our house.
I would like you once again to take into account my opening statement about being a horror writer, watcher and all round fan and then believe me when I say that Heartbreaker goes straight into my top three films of 2010, right between Blood River and The Horde... That is how good this film is.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Unexpectedly Poor
This was 'sold' to me as; the French do a Hollywood style Rom-Com, and do it better than Hollywood (or at least as well as the best of the form). Read more
Published 16 days ago by William J. Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you like the Taxi series
Try this. Like Taxi 1-4 wonderful, sunny locations and beautifully irreverent, with some great sequences. Fun, with excellent performances and a good musical soundtrack.
Published 21 days ago by Norman Field
2.0 out of 5 stars
Ok-Ok
For me not a engaging film. I had expected better from French cinema of this pedigree. Bit crass. I would save your eyesight for something better.
Published 1 month ago by Michael J. Law
5.0 out of 5 stars
French rom com.
I am learning French and thought that watching a French film with English subtitles would be useful. It is an amusing film and I enjoyed watching/listening/reading it.
Published 1 month ago by interested reader
5.0 out of 5 stars
Smooth and reliable service.
Great service. Enjoyed watching the DVD. Very amusing. Good plot and kept me entertained from the start. Would recommend to others.
Published 1 month ago by simfox
4.0 out of 5 stars
Light hearted fun
Enjoyable piece of nonsense with a classy french cast, not only the leads but also the support. I did enjoy the dancing.
Published 2 months ago by Ms. C. D. Stuteley
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ideal for a good laugh
Certainly recommended. and also watch Moliere with him as the lead. SCrumptious! why don't you spoil yourself tonight
you won't go wrong
you won't go wrong
Published 2 months ago by Blondie
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a great film
I'm not a big fan of subtitled films in general, but this is one of the best films I've watched recently. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Emma W
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fab film - a chick flick for boys as well as girls
Recommended by a friend as a fab film and she was right! I'm English and loved it - as did my Frenchman!
Published 3 months ago by Bliss Wench
4.0 out of 5 stars
rom-com
Very easy to watch film. Good fun although a little predictable. Well worth the purchase. It was useful having the subtitles as some of the speech was not clear to a foreign ear.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. SM ELLIS
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