There are two very distinct schools of thought when a film based on is released a famous book. The first of those who, indomitable, maintain that regardless of the director and the actors, transposing a book into cinema is a failed experiment. The second is those who think that it is often films that give substance and magic to books. Whether it is part of the first or second idea, the film that will be released on Prime Video on May 2 The Idea of you and which marks the return of Anne Hathaway, based on the best sellers of Robinne Lee, published for the first time in Italy on April 23 by Sperling & Kupfer, it’s something that everyone will agree on.
Film or book
Let’s start by saying that although it is broadly the same product – the screenplay has obviously been reshuffled – the television version appears to be slightly more purified, while for romance lovers with that extra pinch of sensuality, the book is absolutely a a gem to read in one go. To be clear. the nostalgic ones of Fifty Shades of Graythey will have something to console themselves with.
The social theme
After millions of romance products where he is rich, she is famous, both are beautiful and fall madly in love, The Idea of you brings to the stage and before that into the pages of the book, a story where a mature woman falls in love with a younger man. No toy boys, no clichés, the story that is told, among Hayes Campbell (interpreted by Nicholas Galitzine) the frontman of the most famous bay band in the world August Moon And Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway) thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles is something that tells of a true, passionate love from which it is impossible to escape or resist.
Veiled by barely hinted female guilt, unlike dramas “I would like to but it’s not possible“, Solène, divorced and betrayed, lets her feelings flow, she lives passion and her only concern is not what people may think, rather reconciling her being a woman and mother towards her daughter who is a fan of the band. All the The choices and twists that follow will only be in the name of this priority which is based on parental responsibility, but which for once brings order to life’s priorities, the things that really matter.
The revenge of men
Likewise, the male picture that is painted is also very interesting. where the man, although handsome, muscular, charming and highly courted – inevitable ingredients in this genre of books and films – is not the puppet thirsty for sex and eager for experiences with older women to be pigeonholed into the palmares, rather someone with deep feelings and ideas clear. Hayes Campbell, without having previous adolescent traumas, does not play with love, has no deviations, but experiences it as a pure feeling purged of any social convention.
The dream
Obviously there is no lack of dreams, wealth, the good life, fame, but there is also an abundance of important reflections and themes such as parenthood and what women, out of fear and social convention, often do not do or even say. The Idea of you It’s a great film that’s definitely worth seeing
The plot
Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her teenage daughter Isabelle to meet her favorite boyband. The last thing she would have expected, however, was to get dangerously close to Hayes Campbell, frontman of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes is bright, confident and elegant, and the attraction between the two is immediate. The fact that he is only twenty complicates things further. What begins as a series of clandestine encounters in various cities quickly evolves into a passionate relationship. It’s a journey that crosses continents, as the two navigate the most disparate worlds: from stadium tours to international art fairs, to secluded retreats.
And for Solène it is as much a recovery of her truest self as it is a rediscovery of happiness and love.
