Attaching a dipsomanic dimension to an otherwise light and fluffy romance flick, Lasse Hollström's Safe Haven quaintly juxtaposes psychosis and contentment as a struggling woman (Julianne Hough) searches for a new life.
Along the way she meets Alex (Josh Duhamel), a widower with two children living in a seaside town.
I could relate to his love of the wilderness, his favourite places to chill etc.
They meet, start liking each other, authoritative madness intervenes, the symbolic clashes with the void.
Ms. Hough does a great job representing various components of feminine strength until it becomes clear that she's hooking up with Alex, after which Terry Stacey's cinematography becomes less provocative.
Don't let this trick you into thinking that since you're in a stable relationship you have to sequester your keen fashion sense.
On the contrary, this is when you're at your most beautiful and should therefore continue to find ways to share your beauty on a predictable yet regularly changing basis, thereby vivifying natural and urban worlds, keeping in touch with the changing seasons, transforming them into a living breathing tantalizing work of art.
Springtime.
It's springtime!
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