The first trailer for the comedy Eat, Pray, Love, a film putting in the staring the beautiful Julia Roberts (recently seen in Valentine’s Day and Duplicity), is from now on available on the World Wide Web.

The feature film is the film adaptation of the memoir entitled Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. Originally, the story was written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by Penguin in 2006 The project is adapted and carried out by Ryan Murphy, the creator of the Nip/Tuck series and the movie Running with Scissors.

Julia Roberts incarnates the author, a woman who has apparently all until she learns that it was not the life which she wants. After a painful divorce, she starts a trip around the world which will bring her to a better knowledge of herself.

The distribution is also made up of James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express), Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, No Country for Old Men), Viola Davis (Doub), Billy Crudup (Watchmen) and Richard Jenkins (Dear John, Step Brothers).

Eat, Pray, Love should be released on North-American screens on August 13rd.

A multitude of known actors cross in Valentine’s Day, a choral film more surface than ambitious being windy the virtues of the Love. After that, one would not have to be surprised that more and more of people are sulky the festival of Cupid.

February 14th, the human being seeks to express its feelings by buying flowers and chocolate. There will be thus unions which will be created and others which will be demolished, of the couples which can only dispute, of the families which will find themselves and the heart which will be beating wildly, as much at the children, their parents and the elder ones.

Last year at the same time took the poster He’s Just Not That into You, a romantic comedy generally badly accommodated by the criticism which proved nice all the same and distracting. The history is repeated with a feature-length film even more useless and soporific made by Garry Marshall, the father of Pretty Women which vague still on this two decades old success. Because for has this time, done something of really interesting?

Here, all is a question of distribution: Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Emma Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Kathy Bates, Queen Latifah, Patrick Dempsey, Taylor Swift, etc. A gold casting in the skin of individuals in only one dimension. How could it be different when there are approximately 20 characters? Contrary to a Robert Altman or a Paul Thomas Anderson who used several destinies in order to create a whole even larger, the account choral is not used here for nothing, if is not to put water at the mouth of the spectator who will see finally his preferred actors only a few minutes.

In center of this setting in routine scene dialogs without attraction are found, of the hollow situations, some supported morals and a rate/rhythm if little with alarm, of which the 124 minutes almost make feel the double! Especially that the unit could be very well connected with a publicity being windy the merits of this commercial festival. Or of a preserving load which punishes the teenagers wishing to have sexual relationships and this man who misleads his wife for a younger girl…

This typically Hollywood tale which finishes well for almost everyone quite simply misses heat and of attraction, resembling more a plastic female magazine that with a meditation on the couple and the life in society. There will be always a less catastrophic moment (this dance plated on Bollywood), a surprising counterpart (generally coming from Anne Hathaway) or a drinkable gag (on behalf of Jamie Foxx), except that it is too little too late. The important thing is not to pass through all the stages of the seduction, but to rather create single and interesting beings which will live true experiments, than badly directed observers who often wonder what they make. Definitely, after execrable Dear John and Valentine’s Day, there is not a thing to celebrate the festival of love in the cinema. At least, not in front of a too sweetened love songs and if little inspired.