Four weddings and a funeral - 1994

I always liked this movie, for its humor and for John Hannah. Oh I like his Matthew so much, he's so cute and sweet and nice, and of course heartbreaking at the funeral. Sure, the real protagonist is Charles (Hugh Grant) who unfortunately I don't like very much. He meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell) and is immediately in love with her, but can't admit it, not to her not to himself. They meet during social occasions like, no surprise, weddings and even a funeral. It will take him a lot of time to admit it, passing through her wedding and separation and even his almost-wedding, but they'll finally be together. Obviously.
Other characters are nice too: Tom (James Fleet) is nice, I like him a lot; Scarlet (Charlotte Coleman) is fun. I like other characters too and I like the ending that shows images of these characters' future: Charles and Carrie have a baby, Matthew finds a new boyfriend and smiles again, Tom is happy with Deirdre, Scarlett is happy with her Texan boyfriend: they're so cute, she's like a pocket-girlfriend :-p
The most touching moment of the film is of course Gareth's death, right from the start, when we see Matthew smiling and singing, not knowing that Gareth has fallen down and is dying. Of course his speech at the funeral is very touching, he's a very good actor, he made me cry. Funny how all his friends are sort of surprised: Charles says he never knew that two of them friends were already married, all that time. That sentence stuck with me. At that moment I also liked Tom's simplicity, such a contrast between him and Charles and his torments. Tom who is so sure that one day he'll find someone, never stopping to think What If, good for him.
I liked every moment the camera was on Matthew :-) I liked the love story between David and Serena (right,yes?) because it moves on slowly wedding after wedding, and again it's a big contrast when you think that Charles is going backwards, in a way. I liked Serena, she saw and liked him at once, so she prepared herself by learning sign language and she approached him, and they hit it off nicely. Charles' story, on the other hand, goes like this: he meets girl, girl goes back to America, girl comes back with boyfriend, them marries said boyfriend, while he tries to tell her he loves her only to take it all back, so he tries to forget her by marrying another girl but on his wedding day he learns that she's free again, so calls it off and gets punched in the face for it. And well deserved it was!
Finally he meets her again but doesn't let her go away this time.


ITA quattro matrimoni e un funerale