Book Of Love Review: Sam Claflin Leads Safe & Uneven Romantic Comedy
Sam Claflin has carved out a nice little niche for himself as a romantic leading man. Book of Love builds upon the work he has done in Love, Rosie, Me Before You, and more recently Love Wedding Repeat. In Book of Love, he plays a button-upped, repressed author who is about to get a crash course on what it means to write about love and sex.
Claflin plays Henry Copper, a newly published writer who is struggling with a flopped book. Six months after publishing, his English publisher, played by Lucy Punch – who is inexplicably has no English accent – tells him that his book is a sensation in Mexico. Henry is filled with excitement at this development. That is, until he is hit with the reality upon his arrival that his Spanish translator, Maria Rodriguez (Verónica Echegui), changed everything. What was once a boring, sexless, emotionless mediation on romantic connection is now a steamy erotic novel. The two writers are then forced to pull off the charade that Henry wrote this version throughout a three-city book tour. In the good old-fashioned romantic comedy way, these two will discover that opposites do attract.
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The film is based on the premise that a man who looks like Sam Claflin would not have a semblance of a romantic life or any meaningful sexual experiences. Once the audience can overcome that hurdle, Henry stands as a man who recoils from the thought of sex, intimacy, lust, and passion. He is humorless and seemingly at a complete loss at what makes an interesting book. His Mexican counterpart, Maria, is the opposite of that. She isn’t afraid to be expressive and has experiences that allow her to find the right words for a romance novel. She also has
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