It's like if Normal People and Bee Movie had a baby. If you've heard of it, chances are you know what that plot twist is. And if you haven't — well, just you wait. It looked bland and innocuous, entirely predictable, and something I would watch when I couldn't sleep at 2am, in the vein of Chesapeake Shores or Virgin River.
I didn't give it much more thought until I read a review that revealed The Twist and suddenly it was all I could think about. I had to see this movie. He's dead. He is the father of Jamie Dornan's character, Anthony, and he is IN the movie, but he tells us at the outset he's dead.
Immediately you know this is not your average romance movie. Dead Christopher Walken tells us Rosemary is already in love with Anthony.
Anthony seems pretty oblivious to Rosemary's feelings and is into some girl called Fiona. Rosemary gets all sad, and her dad tells her not to be so glum because she's a swan queen — the unstoppable white swan — and he plays Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake for her. This will come up again later. Rosemary dances around her front garden like a swan, and we cut to a grown Rosemary ie Emily Blunt riding a horse through that beautiful green Irish countryside.
He's either in the actual rain, or has just come in from the rain, or is falling in the river, or finding some other way to be wet.
