My Kenya Airways flight from London to Nairobi had a large selection of films to choose from. The first film I watched was the Working Title film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' which I thoroughly enjoyed. Most of the action of the film takes place either at, or immediately before or after, one of the four weddings and the funeral mentioned in the title. I really liked the way that it jumped in time between each of the services, it meant that we did not know what happened in between the events meaning that the situation that the characters were in always came as a surprise e.g. The last wedding was of the main character, Charles, this wedding came as a surprise to all of us as he was not marrying the woman that we all knew he was going to end up with.All of Richard Curtis' films seem to paint England and a lovely, green way. This film was certainly no exception, the mise-en-scene was cosy and made me feel nostalgic of how England used to be, even though it wasn't really like that in 1994 and I wasn't alive, this just shows that Curtis did a good job in his writing...
The nice thing about the genre of romantic comedy is that you always know there is going to be a happy ending, so you can just sit back and enjoy the drama unfolding knowing that the couple will end up together in the end. Overall i really enjoyed this film, the characters were loveable right from the beginning and i got very emotionally invested, i found myself rooting for every single one of them. It ended in a very satisfying way tying up all the loose ends, i dont always like it when films do this as sometimes you want to be left to make your own assumptions, however in this film it worked perfectly.
This film was nominated for two Oscars, four Golden Globes and eleven BAFTAS. It won four of those BAFTAS and one Golden Globe.
It was a huge success for Working Title grossing $52,700,832 in the US and £25,532,239 in the UK.
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