Love Actually
		Who knew that a title like this would actually be about love?
		A friend of mine had tried to interest me in the movie months ago, but somehow despite my absolute beliefs in love, I didn?t go.  Well out of whim and maybe a need to experience what this filmmaker thought love was, I went.  Filled with a cast of veterans alike and a filmmaker with an assortment of films in his belt, such as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jone?s Diary, I was armoured against the schmooze of movie romance.  Upon leaving the theatre, I couldn?t think of a better place to be.
	The film surrounds these interconnected stories of different aspects of love and I could bathe you in every single story if you liked, but what?s important is that you followed each of these stories with the fervor that you follow your friends and relatives in their conquests of love in their lives.  We have many stories to tell, the long marriage rocked by a possible affair, the office relationship which never happens for over two years, a young boy?s first love, a husband?s grieving process for his first love, even the quest of two stunt porn actor to get to know each other and trust me, they get told.  What becomes interesting is that thankfully this film wasn?t an American film (sorry to my U.S. friends) because deep down, in each British film, there lurks some unhappiness that cannot be resolved.  It?s been like this for decades and it?s a British tradition that is gratefully handed down to Love Actually.  As in life, nothing is all comedy and in some moments, we are offered the truth about love and that sometimes it doesn?t happen the way we think it will.
			We are given a great assortment of actors, such as the wonderful Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Laura Linney as well the humour of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Bill Nighy and they do not disappoint us.  The depth they give, despite the fact that we want to see more of each of their lives, is amazing and you feel by the end that maybe they can tell what happens after the movie ends in their own movies.  It?s an ensemble that connects to each other and we rarely see it work as well as it does here.
				Love is never an easy thing to describe and I won?t say that this film gives us everything we need to know about this most large subject.  What this film does is give us a glimpse into the possibilities of the human heart, not with grandiose wisdom, but with small steps towards a larger understanding.  There is so much to actually love about this movie because deep down, it knows what it?s talking about.