Never Forget is a real tear gas bomb (critic)

Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling are excellent in this melodrama by Nick Cassavetes rebroadcast this evening on Chérie 25.

Never forget will return at 9:05 p.m. on TNT, and we can’t get enough of this romance between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. First really liked this melodrama by Nick Cassavetes when it came out in 2004.

To wait, here is our review again. You can also read here what were the first casting choices of the director, who had considered hiring Britney Spears and George Clooney before hiring this duo of actors. The singer’s hearing is also visible there.

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The story: In a retirement home, a man reads to a sick woman every day the story of two young lovers, Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet at a carnival in the early 1940s and become inseparable. Allie’s family, wealthy and strict, opposes her affair. Noah is called to the front, from where, for a year, he sends a letter to Allie every day. Without answer.

Big, big Kleenex postman. They love each other, are separated, and meet again years later when their lives have followed different paths. Will they be able to love each other again? Great, you might say, another one of those dripping melos that will be all the rage in retirement homes… Well, no. Nick Cassavetes plays the card of heightened romance, sometimes clumsily, but there is something true, and therefore touching, in this film which can be appreciated without shame thanks, certainly, to its couple of young actors, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams (super good), which portray their characters in a very modern way even though the story is not contemporary. Their passion resonates all the more and confronts us with our feelings. Does anyone have a tissue? We often judge a comedy by the amount of laughter it provokes. For melos, it should therefore be the same thing with their ability to soak the eyes. Do not forget Never is a real tear gas bomb.

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