so i'm doing tricky term again..
for me the term romantic isn't stiff, it has wide meaning and isn't always the happy lover overwhelming stuffs, a lonely dark cold scenery of a lake is romantic for me..
and i'm loving the word 'romance' and the word 'loveless', so for me the ideal form of romance is often the mix of two, ofc in an art-sy way, i wouldn't want to live that way..
1. Basil
2. Let me in
3.melancholia
4. The Road
5. Deception
6. The New World
that's all i can think of right now, i remembered some animes but can't tell which
The New World and Melancholia. I must say, I'm impressed but don't know if I'd call them romantic. I understand your definition of the genre, or the word, but romance in the traditional sense is the idealized, not the liaison of two people in love. You don't really think The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is some kind of emperial love triangle, right? That use of the term was popularized by the French. Still, if a lonely dark cold scenery of a lake resonates with you as ideal or romanticized you wouldn't be wrong then.
Me, when I talk about Romance, though, I do mean liaison of love. I'm actually a romantic. I do not, however, like garbage, phony, hollywood romances that follow BS rules that only apply to it and have no real world basis. Pandering garbage like that angers me, it actually angers me.
So here are my romantic movie choices.
From China:
Spicy Love Soup:
This is a very rare title I saw ages ago on an independent channel. An anthology of stories involving different types of love stories such a young man about to meet his future in laws for the first time but ate something real bad the day before and constantly has to go to the bathroom, a man who is forced to take children's toys home to test them out so he and his wife make a game of it, loser has to clean the house, adding a new depth to their relationship that wouldn't exist otherwise, and a man and a woman who fall in love but she flees, maybe from cowardice, maybe she just didn't love him anymore; only she knows.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Just a sheerly imaginative film about memories and a dysfunctional relationship.
Amores Perros:
A film set in Mexico city where the lives of several people from different walks of life, that only have the fact that they're dog owners in common, intersect when an accident changes all their lives.
All About Women
This Chinese film tells the story of 3 very different women dealing with men. A successful and very intimidating businesswoman who's impressed by no man, a rocker/boxer/internet novelist with an imaginary boyfriend that she thinks is all too real, and a scientist that literally freezes at the touch of a man who just created a pheromone that literally causes immediate and overwhelming feelings of love. Not a great movie but a fun comedy that would never be made in hollywood.
The Twilight Samurai
A story about a simple man with simple desires living in a time and place that doesn't look kindly on that. A skilled swordsman who simply wants to watch his daughters grow and work his garden is constantly berated about been more ambitious, to seek a higher position that will earn him more capital. When he saves his best friend from a dual that almost killed him a high ranking official offers him the opportunity to advance in status, a status that might earn him a title high enough to marry the girl he loved all those years ago and just walked into his life.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola's gothic film about the Romanian knight who transcended death to for the woman he loved. I don't really have to go too much in to this one, I take it.
There are so many more but I think this is enough.
