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(Strangely, though, we’re not meant to think there’s anything creepy about being a puppetmaster with people’s lives.) The sort-of superpower helps him get together with Mary (Rachel McAdams), an American with an odd obsession with Kate Moss, and the film takes us a few years into their relationship – with some bumps to negotiate, naturally.Ĭurtis know-it-alls will have fun ticking off the characters and flourishes that re-emerge from earlier films.
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But he can’t change the major stuff (births, death) and, in Curtis’s hands, time travel is really a way of learning how to live a better life. This touch of magic is handy when Tim, newly moved to London, says the wrong thing to a girl or wants to give sex a second go.
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‘About Time’ is a light-touch comedy, not free of sentimentality, about a young man, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), from a wealthy, boho background in Cornwall, who bumbles his way through life and love but who has a power inherited from his dad (Bill Nighy): he can hold his eyes shut and go back in time. And it will be a relief to anyone who suffered the excruciating gags-to-laughs ratio of his super-indulgent ‘The Boat that Rocked’.
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The familiarity of his new film, the cosy and evangelical ‘About Time’, will please fans as much as it irritates detractors. Richard Curtis has become a byword for everything in British cinema that’s safe, stuttery, gently amusing, occasionally teary and ten steps to the left of real.