DVD review - Love Actually (From Barry And District News)

DVD review - Love Actually

THE MAKERS of Four Weddings and a Funeral have followed up their huge success with the critically acclaimed Love Actually.

It stars Huw Grant as the newly-elected prime minister who has a terrible time when he realises that he is falling for his pretty personal assistant Natalie (Martine McCutcheon).

Funnily enough, the title of the film gives the plot away completely. It's all about love, actually. And it's all sorts of different love - new love, old love, fatherly love, sibling love, even infatuation.

The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning. Love Actually is, in essence, a capsule summary of reality.

It follows a group of very different people, all connected to each other in some way, in the four week run-up to Christmas.

With a stunning cast including Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, this is a hit, actually.