Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011

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A young woman (the ubiquitous Amanda Seyfried) discovers hidden in a wall in Verona below what’s purportedly (Romeo and) Juliet’s balcony a 50-year-old letter from a lovesick teenager. She answers it and subsequently meets the now-elderly woman (an inevitable Vanessa Redgrave). They and the woman’s priggish grandson then set out to locate her love once lost. Destino, no? Boy, flicks don’t get much chicker than this, but despite a predictable story arc and some goopy dialogue, this travelogue romantic dramedy successfully walks the cusp between mawkishness and inanity. I’ve sat through worse, and the scenery’s great.