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Very Romantic
Paul Sutton, played by Keanu Reeves, is a WWII veteran and traveling salesman who meets a Mexican graduate student on her way home to her family in the Mexican vineyards. She is devastated because she is pregnant and the father of her child, her professor, abandons her. To save her from being disgraced by her traditional father, they concoct a plan by pretending to be married so she wouldn't have a baby out of wedlock. Sutton meets Victoria's family and right there, knows that this is what he is looking for. He is an orphan, a man with no roots. The movie's theme centers around family and tradition; something that Sutton is looking for. The feelings between Victoria and Paul are deep, despite what they are doing is wrong.
The scenery makes for a romantic backdrop. The vivid colors bring forth the passion and intensity of the family and for the couple. Anthony Quinn, may he rest in peace, is excellent in his roll and the patriarch of the Aragon family. He shows how connected he is to his Mexican heritage expressing the passion of his country and family. This movie is great to watch for anyone who wants to feel sensuous and be reminded of how important family is.

A GREAT FILM! Keanu should do these more often!
This is an intelligent film that has action star Keanu Reeves playing a different role for a change. Atmospheric of the era and touching in story, you feel great at the end to see that what is meant to be is perhaps the greatest thing...

In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married shortly before shipping out, has arranged for him to take a job as a salesman peddling chocolates. While taking a sales trip to another town, he befriends a beautiful but distraught young woman, Victoria Aragon (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). While away at college, Victoria met and fell in love with a young man and soon became pregnant; however, when her boyfriend discovered she was expecting, he abandoned her. She returns home full of shame and fearful of her father's reaction. But Paul gets an idea - he'll pose as her husband and leave after a day or two, so when she's left alone with the child, the disgrace will be on him, not her. Victoria agrees, and Paul joins Victoria as she arrives at her family's estate in the California wine country.

Most of the Aragon family take to Paul readily enough, especially Grandfather Don Pedro (Anthony Quinn), but Victoria's father, Alberto (Giancarlo Giannini), senses something amiss between the young couple


Romantic Tale Survives Wooden Keanu
Keanu Reeves looks good in this film but his wooden performance almost does it in. Reeves actually looks quite the returning soldier from WWII in his sharp looking uniform. It's his lack of conviction with almost every word he speaks that is the greatest threat to this romantic film. However, from a pure cinematic perspective Reeves does work. What works well for Reeves in a film like SPEED (the unemotional dedicated civil servant) does not exactly work well for him here. At least that was the greatest complaint from the reviewers upon this film's release.

The best parts of this film are the scenes showing Reeves returning home from the war and his initial travels by train and then by bus getting back into his civilian sales job. The story that unfolds has a dreamlike quality to it and thus unfolds the romatic tale of love. One of this films greatest strengths is Maurice Jarre's beautiful score. It sounds like he reached way back to some of this classic scores he composed in the 1960s for romantic inspiration. The ending has shades of Rock Hudson's THIS EARTH IS MINE but that's sort of a tribute to that era of filmmaking. In all this is not a bad film.

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