Sometimes it is worth rethinking the concept of a romantic movie. And, if that definition is circumscribed in addition to the present time, a first approximate balance of the evolution of film romances at the beginning of the 21st century could be tackled. The task is not simple nor the accommodation to all expectation, because what is a romantic movie?

Strictly speaking, every work speaks of love, and that anecdote of Billy Wilder waking up in the middle of the night to write something in his notebook is well known, so that the next morning he discovered in his own hand the simple quotation ‘boy knows the girl’. Wilder summed up the creative foundation through this probably invented experience, but it is not enough in the case of film romances, or, say, the paroxysm of the feeling of love in large format. It becomes urgent to add difficulties to that simple sum of a couple of factors, if possible a war, a distancing, another couple or wife or husband; an ocean or a wall between two rooms.

Therefore, a romantic movie is not equivalent to a romance – which can be included in ribbons of varied fur, in which love does not necessarily stand out, propel the action, or be determinant for the fate of the characters, no matter how memorable it ends resulting to cinephile memory-. Let’s understand from now on a romantic film like melodrama-mecano of loving obstacles, with the happy end or not, to the purest style of the genre inaugurated by the majors of Hollywood. While waiting for an upcoming full tour of the best romantic films of all the history of cinema, we launched here the first round for all tastes from the year 2000 to the present day.


Source: http://impelreport.com/top-10-best-hollywood-romantic-adult-movies-of-all-time-impelreport/