L'amour et les autres drogues

La mise en scène souple et entraînante de Zwick sert fort bien les charmants Jake Gyllenhaal et Anne Hathaway, dont la complicité à l'écran est évidente.

Hathaway and Gyllenhaal have a natural and sexy spark, and their scenes together are where the movie comes closest to its goal of being a romantic comedy for grown-ups.

Le réalisateur Edward Zwick, qui n'avait pas touché à la comédie depuis ses débuts, à la fin des années 80 (About Last Night), offre une comédie qui rappelle la devise d'un certain désodorisant : assez fort pour lui, mais conçu pour elle.

But low farce is only one substance in the film's dispensary. Love and Other Drugs is a sometimes intoxicating, sometimes headache-inducing cocktail: a sweet, libidinous love story; a candid comedy of bedroom and workplace manners; and, most bravely, if also most jarringly, a medical melodrama involving a chronic and very serious disease.

It's still a seriously flawed film, and one that is unlikely to get too many accolades around Oscar-time (save for Hathaway's performance), but overall, it's not bad, and moderately engrossing.

De beaux acteurs peuvent-ils sauver un long métrage atrocement prévisible qui se termine en faisant la morale à qui veut bien l'entendre? Dans un monde idéal, oui.

C'est joli, c'est triste, c'est plein d'espérance, mais au bout du compte ça ne veut rien dire sinon que l'amour est plus fort que la mort, l'éternel mensonge de tous les mensonges.

This movie could have easily drowned in a tub of gooey, romantic sap, but thanks to the addition of side characters that include a dot-com millionaire little brother (Josh Gad) and a morally absent doctor (Hank Azaria), Zwick's little saga keeps bubbling back up to the surface.

Zwick's Once and Again and thirtysomething portrayed emotion more honestly than many TV shows of their time. But in Love and Other Drugs, he unevenly weds the satirical and the sentimental.