Alejandro Agresti
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Twice in the course of the film, a character watches bits of "Notorious" on TV, which seems odd — like someone dug up the wrong Cary Grant movie.
Twice we see scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious playing on a TV.
As the final moments wrap up, one canât help but contemplate the film thatâs repeatedly referenced as an icon of romance throughout The Lake House, Alfred Hitchcockâs masterpiece Notorious.
Twice during the new film The Lake House, characters watch Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) on television, specifically the famous "kissing" scene.
On second thoughts, "together" doesn't quite explain the state in which they find themselves in The Lake House, which is a Sleepless in Seattle-type love story - an example of the delayed gratification model, where circumstances conspire to ensure that the lovers spend much of the picture apart.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had it in Sleepless in Seattle.
Combine equal parts "Memento" and "Sleepless in Seattle" and you might concoct something like "The Lake House," an Americanization of the fascinating 2000 Korean romantic fantasy "Il Mare," in which two solitary souls make a connection via enchanted letters.
Like "Sleepless in Seattle" and, to a similar extent, "Heat", the audience for "House" has come to the theater looking to see two stars play together on screen.
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Directed by Robert Schwentke
influenced by The Lake House (2006)
Plot
People who complained about The Lake House not fitting together logically missed the fact that it was a story about a magical mailbox.
The 2006 film, The Lake House , postulated that two people separated by years might fall for each other via letters they deposit in a time traveling mailbox.
The same sort of temporal dislocation used in "The Lake House," "Somewhere in Time" and half the episodes of "Star Trek" is wielded more poetically in "The Time Traveler's Wife," from the novel by Audrey Niffenegger.
When they’re not aging backward like Benjamin Button, they’re falling in love from two years away (“The Lake House’’) or from the Great Beyond (“Ghost’’) or from another planet (“Starman’’).
The Time Traveler's Wife, adapted from the 2003 best-seller by Audrey Niffenegger, is one of those gooey romantic mind-benders, like Ghost (which I adored) or The Lake House (not so much), in which a couple must come to grips with some trippy impediment to their relationship, such as life after death or a hole in the space-time continuum.
The premise may remind you of “Frequency,” the 2000 Dennis Quaid/Jim Caviezel film about a father and son who communicate 30 years apart through an old wireless radio.
Director Alejandro Agresti’s The Lake House, based on a South Korean film called Il Mare, takes the premise that launched movies such as Back to the Future and Frequency and asks, "What would a good boyfriend do with these powers?"
It’s a convention of science fiction films and it rarely works there (see Star Trek: First Contact for one of film history’s few capable time-hopping stories), so it’s no surprise that it doesn’t happen well here.
They made momentary eye contact, and she quickly pretended to be reading the back of the DVD case for The Lake House.
Shades of Twilight’s vampire romance haunt this sweetly soppy fantasy pitched somewhere between the conceit of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , the literary longing of The Time Traveler’s Wife and the outright silliness of The Lake House .
Even the title of the new effort from the creator of “Love, Actually” is a sad cliché, but the whole plot treads the same territory as “Somewhere in Time,” “The Lake House” and “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” and its mixture of whimsy and mawkishness is familiar, too.