Romantic Film Locations Blog

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I’m loving the costumes and soft color palette of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.  You can see more photos here.

I’m totally loving the Living In blog series over at Design*Sponge.  Basically, Amy Merrick choses one of her favorite movies I’d like to live in and then gives readers decor options that match the film.  Better you just visit the link and see for yourself.  I especially like the Gosford Park one!

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Who doesn’t love the movie Finding Neverland? It’s so great, right? And not just because of Johnny Depp and his “och look at the wee bairn” Scottish accent. I loved all of the pretty locations filmed around Richmond, Surrey and the elegant sets, especially the interior of the Llewelyn Davies house. So I thought I would pull a few shots for you as a glorious example of Edwardian England décor. Kate Winslet’s bedroom is rather shabby chic – don’t you love it!

And I just have to throw in a shot of Mrs. Barrie’s room for those awesome curtains (and that sweater!).

I’m love love loving Julia’s Movie Mondays from Hooked On Houses: http://hookedonhouses.net/houses-onscreen/

The Gone With The Wind page is seriously fun.

Alfonso Cuaron is an award winning Mexican director who helmed one of my favorite movies – A Little Princess – and is responsible for other cinematic delights such as Great Expectations with Gwyneth and the third Potter film (and in my opinion the finest). Not to mention Y Tu Mama Tambien!

Cuaron is well known for his use of the color green in his films, partly because the color green can be lit with either warm or cool undertones. In A Little Princess, he blends different shades of green to color everything from costumes to buildings giving the whole film a lush, fairytale-like palette. Every so often the green gets broken up by a bold color like burnt orange or lemon yellow similar to the way Jean-Pierre Jeunet used red to break up his greenish tinged fable Amelie (another of my favorites – maybe I like green films?)

Since A Little Princess was not a romantic film per se (although one could argue that the presence of handsome Irish actor Liam Cunningham does get the heart beating a bit faster), I won’t be profiling it on this site. But as it is one of my favorite films I will tell you that it was shot mostly on Hollywood sets with a foray into India for some establishing shots.

The screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese who has written a slew of brilliant scripts including The Ref, The Fisher King, and Living Out Loud (with Holly Hunter).  I wouldn’t say that A Little Princess had a brilliant script but it works because ultimately it’s a childrens film

The great Patrick Doyle scored the film (soundtrack available at Amazon) with my favorite tracks being those influenced by baroque composer Michael Hyden especially in the WWI sequences. For more on Patrick Doyle visit this nicely put together fan site.