Eat Pray Love (RyanMurphy, 2010)
Movie: Elizabeth, a successful writer, realizes that she does not live as she would like. She decides to leave everything and travel the world to find herself. In Italy, gastronomic excesses betray it; in India she tries to return to the spiritual path; and lastly, that she meets in Bali with her true love.
Real life: The film is based on the autobiographical book by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is a very personal work, and in the novel, Elizabeth and José (in the film his name is Felipe), are portrayed as they are. However, in the film the lovers decided not to remarry and are actually still married. They now live in New Jersey, where they have an Asian souvenir shop. Elizabeth continues to write books.
anna and the king (Andy Tennant, 1999)
Movie: Anna, a British governess, is hired by the King of Siam (Thailand) to educate his 58 children, at the end of the 19th century. Her cultural contrasts make it difficult for her to adapt, however she ends up falling in love with that exotic place… With a sovereign and everything?
Real life: This story is based on the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, an English teacher who wrote down everything that happened to her during her time in that eastern kingdom.
Like it was the first time (Peter Segal, 2004)
Movie: The charming blonde Lucy Whitmore suffered an accident due to which, when she falls asleep, she forgets everything that has happened to her during the day, so she lives stuck on the same date for years. Henry Roth, her heartthrob, has to conquer her every day, over and over again.
Real life: Michelle Philpotts suffers from a rare form of amnesia after an accident; for her time stopped and for 21 years she has lived in 1994. Every morning her husband has to show her that they are spouses, reinforcing her words with images from the family album and notes with the most important events in their lives. she. The difference with the movie is that this couple met before the accident.
the white maasai (Hermine Huntgeburth, 2005)
Movie: On vacation in Kenya, Carola falls in love with Lemaliana, who is dark-skinned. She decides to leave her life in Europe and settle in the desert of Kenya, but it is not easy to get along with the natives, whose morals seem crazy to her. The couple conceives a baby, but that doesn’t mean they can stay together. After many years, jealousy of her and the wildlife wears her down, so she decides to return to her land.
Real life: This movie was based on the story by Corinne Hofmann, who described it in the book of the same name. Corinne met Lketinga Leparmoriyo in 1986 during a trip to Kenya with her boyfriend; she broke up with him, sold her business in Switzerland, and married her mistress in 1988. In addition to illnesses and communication problems with her husband, Lketinga was jealous and often hinted that she doubted him. her paternity. Corinne loved her husband, but after a few years of torture she decided to return home.
The empire of the senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Movie: A rich merchant and his servant sink into the abyss of passion. In search of new forms of union, the woman finds pleasure in strangling her lover. The story has a tragic ending for both of them.
Real life: As strange as it may seem, this story is almost copied from real life. The original story caused such a stir in Japan that much has been written and talked about it; Abe Sada murdered his mistress in the 1930s after a passionate love affair, becoming a media phenomenon at the time.
moths –Inseparable, in USA- (Vitaliy Vorobyov, 2013/2014)
Movie: Originally a television miniseries, this film tells the love story between a schoolgirl and a soldier during the spring of 1986, after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The young man receives a serious dose of radiation for which he is confined, however he escapes from the hospital to see his beloved.
Real life: The director was based on multiple love stories that were broken due to the Chernobyl catastrophe, but mainly on a firefighter and his wife (Vasily Ignatenko and Ludmila). He had to work in the post-disaster, where he received a large dose of radiation, however his wife risked her life to take care of him, despite the fact that the doctors categorically forbade her to approach him.
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the rebel novice (Robert Wise, 1965)
Movie: In the city of Salzburg, shortly before Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, a novice is sent to the home of a widowed former Austrian Imperial Navy captain to work as a governess for his 7 children. There, the young woman befriends the children and falls in love with the captain; the family has to flee for their lives.
Real life: The film is based on the story of the Von Trapp family; the biggest difference between fiction and reality is that they did not flee across the mountains to Switzerland but traveled by train to Italy and then to London; from there they fled to America. The family actually sang.
You will sigh with: Has someone done something so romantic for you that it looks like something out of a movie?
Vows of love (Michael Sucsy, 2012)
Movie: Paige and Leo celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary. They get into a car accident and she is left in a coma. When she regains consciousness of her, she does not remember anything of her life, not even her husband, who is determined to win her back.
Real life: The film is based on the true story of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, authors of the book of the same name. The film is true to reality, in which after much suffering, the woman falls in love with her husband again. She looks like a lie.
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