Just Another Love Story

Release Date (UK) - 24 July 2009

Certificate (UK) - 18

Country - Denmark

Director - Ole Bornedal

Runtime - 100 mins

Starring -Anders W Bertelsen, Rebecka Hemse

Jonas (Anders W Bertelsen) is a crime scene photographer who goes to visit Julia (Rebecka Hemse) in hospital after she is injured in a car crash that was partly his fault. She is in a coma and her family mistake him for her boyfriend Sebastian who they'd never met as Julia had been travelling and only just returned. Rather than explaining the misunderstanding Jonas goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Julia who wakes up blind and with amnesia so she herself is also convinced Jonas is Sebastian.

The 18 rating may put you off this but its only really there because of one unnecessarily violent scene at the end of the film. Its certainly not a predictable love story film and the open prologue scenes set that out from the start. its much more of a dramatic thriller and a first rate one at that. There are some funny moments especially when Jonas is having to pretend to be Sebastian but as Julia's memory returns and the story of why she fled the real Sebastian emerges the excitement really builds up. However for me there were far too many plot similarities to Almodovar's Talk to Her and I ended up wishing I was re-watching that as the direction lacks Almodovar's expert style and pace. Overall a good thriller but ruined by a far too long ending.