Love Actually...

[MrsFozziwig]

It's nearly Christmas, I have wine, I'm watching in tears as usual

Just feeling sorry for myself that it's never going to happen for me...

That's it really!

Ah well.

[Belleblush]

That film makes us very nostalgic...it's a Xmas classic. I'm sure it will happen for you. As the best ever author said, "Those who don't believe in magi will never find it" (R.Dahl) xxx

[Cakeycakecake]

Ugh it's not just me then! Instead of wine I have a baby in one arm and his bottle in the other. Can I have some 🍷 please??

[MrsFozziwig]

Very true!

I do love it. It's my guilty Christmas movie pleasure.

But I do cry from about the point Colin Firth's cleaner is wrapped in a blanket after diving into the lake and they have a 'moment' until the end.

It gives me hope...

Bloody ridiculous really!

[NapQueen]

Even sadder since Alan Rickman left us.
I'm limbering myself up.

[MrsFozziwig]

You absolutely can, Cakey

It literally breaks my heart. I don't even like romcoms...

The only film moment that comes second to it is when Belle walks down the staircase to the ballroom...

[Scrappysmammy]

I love Love Actually and can usually find an excuse to watch it at any time of the year.

[MrsFozziwig]

Yes, Nap. Me too

Been such a sad year.

[MrsFozziwig]

Really, Scrappy? I only allow myself to watch it at Christmas! I must watch it about twice a week in the run up...

[GeillisTheWitch]

I want to scream at that American woman to stop being such a bloody martyr and ignore her phone sometimes. You'd think her brother's carers would stop him from harassing her constantly.

[Randytortoise]

Never made it past the first 20min for various reasons, anyone care to summarise?

[Eve]

In a hotel room (away with work) with wine! Bad combination.

[DrFoxtrot]

Love this film, the bit where Emma Thompson's character realises her husband has bought the necklace for someone else heartbreaking.

[ittooshallpass]

Emma Thompson is spectacular in this film. The scene where she prepares to go downstairs and face her family when she knows her husband has cheated is just hearbreaking. I lose it completely Every time.

[NoCapes]

Eurgh the bit where she straightens the bedsheet

[Paddington68]

gets me every time.

[acornsandnuts]

Just watching Emma Thompson scene. Heart breaking and so relatable.

[MrsFozziwig]

I know...

[RandomMess]

Yeah for different reasons, takes me back to the utter devastation of my marriage falling apart

[MrsFozziwig]

That's very sad, Random.

I think what makes me the saddest is that, in the whole film, I've can relate to Emma Thompson's character more than any of the actual love.

I can't imagine what it must be like to have someone love you. And it just makes me sad to watch it.

Hate the bloody cheesy postcards at the door scene. But it kills me. Every time

[Scribblegirl]

I was planning on coming on this thread to share the Jezebel review of it - which runs down all the awful, mysogenistic and generally shit ways relationships are portrayed in the film.

But fuck it, I'm here watching it too, so merry Christmas! If it's any consolation I'm in a happy relationship but the Joni Mitchell moment makes me wonder/worry if that will ever happen to me - so it never goes away!

[Scribblegirl]

Sorry OP, X-post. At least the Good King Wencleslas moment is coming!

[MrsFozziwig]

Scribble I'm well aware of the all the sexist crap. It's in most things. But I am prepared to let much of it go in this film because it's the only thing that ever makes me yearn for the happily ever after....

[MrsFozziwig]

[Scribblegirl]

Oh me too, fozzi, but we all love it

To out myself, one of my friends was once chatted up on the nightbus in London by a 20-something who claimed he'd 'been the octopus in love actually'.

[LadyPeterWimsey]

So much wrong with it. But the 'Eight is a lot of legs, David' line has us giggling every time.