We have already entered the month that counts the fewest days, but has the most events that somehow cannot be ignored. The month of February is, among other things, the month of love and culture, and above all of film, as numerous film awards are being presented for the achievements of the past year. The list of nominees this year is mainly dominated by biographical dramas, overflowing with emotions that reach all the way to the heart.
More when I look at the lists of the most romantic movies of all time, it seems to me that there are films that somehow reach the top of the romantic pantheon, and the road to it is anything but easy and does not always end happily. Perhaps this is the archetype of a fairy tale that draws us deeper into the imaginative world of romance, as falling in love is supposed to be mysterious and untamed. Or a form of literary romance, a centuries-old genre of narrative fiction that is said to combine adventure, idealism and chivalrous love, but which is usually written in fate. Last but not least, we cannot avoid the fact that the romantic story in the film embraces all our senses, dark, light, visual, auditory, which raise such films higher than reality. Moving shadows, magic words, romantic longings and broken hearts are the main actors in some of the most gloriously idealistic films such as Casablanca, and in the vortex Roman holidays, A fleeting encounter, Doctor Zhivago …
#178 City Magazine - Big Loves by City Magazine
Great stories, great loves are the product of imagination, the lion's share of which is contributed by the entire team of filmmakers, from the director himself, screenwriters, actors, as well as film music composers who can be true masters of timing our emotions... Scarlett will always have her Rhett Butler, even if only the next day (In the vortex, 1939), the naive Nataša of his uncompromising Andrei in the novel War and Peace, Napoleon will always yearn for his Josephine, and Cleopatra and Mark Antony will always be recorded as rulers whose love was not shaken even by the war between their empires. Everyone probably carries their favorite love story inside of them, but can we transfer it to the real world in a cinematic way? Maybe already... Someone once said that life is like a movie, we just have to write the script on the fly, when you put a period, the sentence is over. Anyway, let words of affection and attention float in the air these days, let your Valentine's Day be filled with love, but if you already want to follow Slovenian customs and traditions, you can melt the ice only on March 12, Gregorian Day, maybe some flowers will be cheaper then, if not for free, from home turf.
