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Lgolden age of Hollywood has produced a noble subgenre, experts have called it “Comedy of re-marriage”. Stanely Cavell, a philosopher who for years taught at Harvard and wrote about Shakespeare, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, dedicated a book to those masterpieces of the 30s and 40s, from Scandal in Philadelphia to Adam’s rib in which by proposing sublime recompositions after divorces and separations, in fact we reflected on the birth of a new female identity, a renewed idea of the couple and on the relationships between the sexes. The book is titled The pursuit of happiness. The Hollywood comedy of re-marriageand has been translated into Italian for Einaudi by Emiliano Morreale.
David (George Clooney) and Georgia (Julia Roberts) in Ticket to Paradise, directed by Ol Parker. Photo Credit: Universal Pictures
Evidently every now and then, some nostalgic people pick it up and try to update that very happy formula. He had tried Nancy Meyers with It’s complicated in 2009calling to interpret the exes for whom the spark fires none other than Meryl Streep and Alex Baldwin. To stand up to the icons of the past, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, it takes big names.
Ticket to Paradisethe latest title on the list (to be seen at the end of October), has a cast to match, Julia Roberts and George Clooney are Kaitlyn Dever’s parents who, after graduating in law, leaves with her best friend for Bali (the film was actually shot on an island off the Australian coast). There she meets an attractive young algae farmer, she falls in love with him and decides to get married and stay in pareo and slippers by the sea, convinced that life is more suitable for her. But she hasn’t come to terms with her quarrelsome parents who, determined not to allow her to make the same mistake as theirs (getting married for love), join her in heaven to sabotage the wedding. You will end badly, that is, very well.
Julia Roberts and George Clooney: fifth film together
In press conference that took place in the aftermath of the London premiere of the film, the cast assembled and sorted into two rows, Julia, George and Kaitlyn of the proscenium, together with the director Ol Parker, Billie Lourd (the best friend), Lucas Bravo (the hopeless suitor of Julia, French and therefore in the optics Hollywood, a bit of a fool) and Maxime Bouttier (the exotic betrothed) behind them, answered unmemorable questions that had been sent to them by film journalists from all over the world and selected by the production. The director (expert in ladies’ films, having directed Marigold Hotel and came up with Ticket to Paradise at the second romantic comedy on an exotic background, later Mamma Mia! Here we go again) confirmed that he wrote the script with George and Julia in mind.
Kaitlyn Dever and Maxime Bouttier in “Ticket to Paradise”.
George and Julia best friends
The two protagonists, at the fifth film together and close friends since Ocean’s Eleven (2011) claimed to have read it in one breath in unison and to have willingly accepted. Julia did it mainly because the film gave her the opportunity to show how George was “pathetically in love with me.” George was satisfied with the fact that “the queen of comedy was not available” and therefore agreed to work with Julia.
A moment from the filming of Ticket to Paradise.
Had he been in Milan, someone would have told him “stop doing ganassa”, but between a question about the risks involved in dealing with the Australian fauna, an area of the world where it is known the dimensions of everything are higher than normal, there was space also for a political statement. Urged to comment on Australia’s restrictive policy during the most acute phases of the pandemic, Clooney said: “Had we done it in the United States too, there would have been many fewer deaths.”
Julia Roberts, queen of rom-com
Seriously, if there was one “Queen of comedy” and rom-com, the romantic comedy, in particular, in the 90s that is definitely Julia Roberts. The genre, which is little practiced today, has reached its peak with Pretty Womanthen followed by the My best friend’s wedding and from Notting Hill. Roberts who hasn’t made a comedy since 2016 (Mother’s day) explained to the New York Times Magazine the reason for the disaffection towards the genre: the less good screenwriters of the past and a little bit even the critics who snub them (so in the end you don’t win the Oscars). “If I had read anything at the writing level of Notting Hill or capable of providing insane entertainment such as My best friend’s wedding, I would have done it. There haven’t been any, until this movie. But also in this case I said to myself: “Well, but it will only work if it’s George Clooney. And George felt he would only work with me. ‘
At the press conference, the young actors freaked out praise for the two masters of comedy of the generation that preceded them. “Like attending a masterclass,” Dever summed up. «Beautiful to see them connect with the child in them after each take»Declared Bravo. “It’s the French way of saying we are childish,” concluded Clooney.
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