Like Crazy...

There's something about an art-house movie - it's honest, it's real, it's applicable to real life, it's natural, it just touches heart, soul and mind. This is the kind of a movie I'd prefer over any blockbuster with special effects, colorful scenery, beautiful actors... But I've already said that many times before, that's why more often I do reviews of independent, foreign and/or art-house films. Yes, I'm being a bit subjective to it. And, of course, there are exceptions to the rules - sometimes those films end up to be too 'artsy', too far from the action plan on how to apply an art form of a film to the reality. Sometimes they are just too 'weird' to be taken both as a life lesson and as a pure entertainment.

In this case, although, the film Like Crazy did serve the purpose of bringing real life scenario - or what might happen to everyone in this life - to a film.

Like Crazy show a beautiful - painful at times - romance between the two young people, who struggle to maintain a relationship on the opposite sites of the ocean. She, Anna, is British - with a very British passport with no U.S. status, he, Jacob, is American - with a very American lifestyle. They meet in college in Los Angeles. She is poetic, she studies to be a writer and/or journalist, she compiles sketch books of memories and bits and pieces of their relationship and he - let's her read her poetry to him and keeps her diaries as a reference to their young steaming and very romantic relationship. But the film wouldn't be complete without a drama, which more often that we'd like to believe - [or know] - happens to many 'international' couples. (I know at least two such couples in my life!)

The drama unfolds when her student visa expires and she has to leave America, but she decides to stay, despite the immigration policies and regulations. She excuses her choice with what she 'calls' a sacrifice to be with a loved one - to spend a summer with him just laying in bed and enjoying sunrises and sunsets...Little did they know that the impulsive choice they make would hunt them forever and becomes a long emotional struggle to be together after she gets deported to UK without a permission to re-enter the states.

What might have seem to sound like a 'little drama film', the film is far from it. While it takes only half an hour to show the development of the beautiful - at times naive - pure relationship between the two characters, it gets more complex, intense and emotional in the next hour, when we see the two characters being in such constant pain from being apart - [I'd be brave to compare their relationship withdrawal as to the drug addicts' withdrawals] - that this 'little teenage drama' becomes very real, because the longing for a loved ones that they manage to play out so beautifully, brings ache to the audience in a very real way.

And, of course, as with any independent, art-house, foreign, and small-budget movies that are more based on a story line than special effects and 'glamour' - this film has a rather philosophical, unexpected ending that, definitely, would make anyone re-play the movie and think about it for days to come...

Also worthy of mentioning - the main actors of the movie. I can predict that the newcomer - sensual Brit Felicity Jones would be very demanded in Hollywood in the very near future. 

Not only she's very talented, but she is also very cute and lovable in a very lady-like way, which is a rare quality to an actress in Hollywood nowadays...

As for the young - but already famous - Indie actor, Anton Yelchin, who portrays Jacob, the future has been already predicted for him after his "Chekov" role in the latest Star Trek. 

All in all, both actors 'fit' each others perfectly - both emotionally and physically.

What the trailer here: