Valentine’s Day 2024 films at the cinema: from Romeo is Juliet to Past Lives

Com is the Valentine’s Day 2024 to spend at the cinema? Very rich in romantic films and more. With regard to Italian films, after the passage to the Venice Film Festival, the fake thriller is released Finally dawn by Saverio Costanzo, while Giovanni Veronesi proposes Romeo and Juliet: comedy of errors with hero Pilar Fogliati. On the bill for Valentine’s Day there is also one of the most anticipated films of the award season, Past Livesa delicate analysis of a never-consummated love (it is among the 10 Oscar nominees for best film), and Romeo and Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi.

Valentine’s Day 2024, romantic films at the cinema

Romeo and Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi

Federico Landi Porrini (Sergio Castellitto) is an established, and somewhat megalomaniac, theater director looking for an adaptation of his Romeo and Juliet of the masterpiece of William Shakespeare. Among the candidates, the young Vittoria (Pilar Fogliati) stands out but at the audition she was first humiliated by Porrini and then excluded due to a shadow on her past. She is determined however to have a part, and with the complicity of her make-up artist friend (Geppy Cucciari)Victoria decides to try again under a false identity.

As? Dressing like a mana bit like what happened to Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Vittoria thus transforms into November 8th and gets the part of Romeo. Everything seems to be going well when her boyfriend (Domenico Diele) is chosen to play the role of Mercutio. And the girl finds herself having to hide her identity from him too. By creating a series of irresistible misunderstandings.

Finally dawn by Saverio Costanzo

Nine years later Hungry Hearts, Saverio Costanzo returns to the cinema with a story set in Hollywood on the Tiber. We are in Rome, in 1953a few hours aftermurder of Wilma Montesi21 year old aspiring actress found dead in Torvaianica.

In the film, several people tied in a peplum – set in ancient Egypt and in production at Cinecittà – they meet to share important moments. As Mimosa (Rebecca Antonaci), a simple girl – about to get married to a wealthy man –, to Cinecittà to make an appearancejust like Wilma.

But there is also Josephine (Lily James), a Hollywood starthreatened by the new generation of actors, and Rufus Priori (Willem Dafoe), an American gallery owner friend of the actress who will lead the unlikely group on a journey through the night.

Madame Web by SJ Clarkson

Based on the character of the same name Marvel, Madame Web and the fourth spin-off of the saga Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. The protagonist is Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson), a Manhattan paramedic than after a near-fatal accident discovers he can predict the future. Even involuntarily, without wanting it, he receives it visions of terrible events involving places and people. But he cannot determine whether they are visions of something that will happen or that could happen, and therefore that could be prevented, avoided, changed.

The experience he has is that of a future in the present, a power similar to Spider-Man’s overdeveloped senses. Of course, she assumes the marked identity of Madame Web. Forced to confront revelations from her past, she forms a bond with three young women destined for an extraordinary future but who will have to survive a present full of threats: Julia (Sydney Sweeney), Anya (Isabela Merced) and Mattie (Celeste O’Connor).

The Three Musketeers – Milady by Martin Bourboulon

In this sequel to the Three Musketeers – D’Artagnanthe young musketeer – Always at his side loyal Athos, Porthos and Aramis (Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris and Pio Marmaï), – begins a frantic search to save his beloved Constance (Lyna Khoudri), mysteriously kidnapped. But the film has to the (almost) absolute protagonist is the beautiful and ruthless Milady de Winter (Eva Green), a mysterious woman who forms an alliance with D’Artagnan (François Civil).

Meanwhile France is about to enter into conflict with England and D’Artagnan and his musketeer friends find themselves faced with a choice: sacrifice those they love or serve their nation? But above all, for D’Artagnan, there is the difficult test of resisting the charm of the beautiful Milady.

The nature of love by Monia Chokri

Directed by Monia Chokri, director and former actress-muse of Xavier Dolan, the film tells the story of Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau), a 40-year-old philosophy teacher at the University of Montreal, where for ten years lives a solid (but monotonous) relationship with his colleague Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume).

What cements the couple is comfort, stability and intellectual understanding, but passion is now a distant memory. One day however, Sophia’s life suddenly changes when she meets Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the handyman carpenter who he commissioned to renovate the country house. The two couldn’t be more different: she is cultured and wealthy, he is simple and proletarian.

But the difference between social classes it won’t prevent love at first sight which will make an intense passion flare up. And which will overwhelm the lives of all three protagonists.

Past Lives by Celine Song

Inspired by one story that actually happened to the director Korean, the film is perhaps the most romantic of this Valentine’s Day 2024 and tells the story of Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo). Two deeply bonded kids who they separate when Nora’s family from South Korea emigrates to Canada.

We find them again twelve years later when the two decide to talk again Skype: he remained in Seoul, Nora, on the other hand, lives in New York and became a writer. They talk for a whilewith the desire to see each other again, but then Nora decides to ghost him and another twelve years of silence pass.

Then, one day in New York, finally the two meet again. Hae is also a writer now while Nora lives with Arthur (John Magara), a Jewish novelist who suffers a bit from this special friendship. Also because Nora and Hae, in defiance of Arthur, decide to spend a week together, during which they seem to rediscover their old chemistry. What will happen?

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