The Republic of Love

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The Republic of Love

2003

1h 36m

Romance

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Divorced three times, a disc jockey (Bruce Greenwood) falls for a curator (Emilia Fox) who has a boring boyfriend.

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

02/13/2004

2/5

A quaintly uncomplicated romance that struggles to keep up with the quality of its acting.

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

02/13/2004

2.5/4

The charisma of the cast goes a long way to bring warmth to this story of winter love.

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

07/25/2004

2.5/5

Wintry symbolism has never felt so forced -- and in a film that ought to have been played as a romantic comedy, it's never been more out of place, either.

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Louis B. Hobson

Jam! Movies

02/13/2004

2.5/5

Mehta's screenplay never effectively addresses one of the major themes of the story.

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Bruce Kirkland

Jam! Movies

02/13/2004

3.5/5

A modest endeavour but there is much to quietly savour here.

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)

02/12/2004

The tiresome zaniness and Seinfeldian conceits might be forgivable if the romantic plot weren't so full of empty truisms and nonsense lines that would stump a Zen monk.

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03/11/2013

This is a beautiful story and I loved the ending.

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12/02/2012

Quite a nice film, despite the porno music in love scenes and the Bollywood between scene music. I enjoyed the many views on love, from many generations.

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01/27/2012

Deepa Mehta has a good reputation for art house type movies set in India. This movie, based on a well-known novel by Carol Shields, was Mehta's big chance to show she can do a North American style romantic comedy (she wrote and directed it). The answer's in: she can't. Back to India, Deepa.

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10/29/2011

Um, how have I never heard of this movie?? Admittedly some of the visuals were WAY over-the-top, but overall, I found this to be one of the best modern love stories I've seen. Though the characters meet in a very star-crossed way, their love is mature and very realistic. The couple's chemistry was palpable and believable, and Greenwood in particular delivered a great performance.

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02/20/2011

Your standard issue lonely people meet and sparks fly movie, the kind one watches with ice cream (women) or booze (men). For what it is it is a well done movie. Emilia Fox is gorgeous (well my kind of gorgeous woman at least), the film works very well with Toronto as the back drop. Glad I picked it up in the library, a nice harmless (in a good way) movie to watch.

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11/13/2010

way to spend lazy sunday morning (snowing outside, stuck in a downtown-high-rise). script was good, but screenplay was so so. really, who has conquered "the fear of disenchantment"? time to get lunch, hit the gym & get back to a more boring subject, (information technology) homework for monday!

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Synopsis

Divorced three times, a disc jockey (Bruce Greenwood) falls for a curator (Emilia Fox) who has a boring boyfriend.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Producer: Julie Baines, Anna Stratton
Screenwriter: Deepa Mehta, Esta Spalding
Distributor: Helkon SK
Production Co: Dan Films
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 11, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 20, 2016
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Surround