Down with Love

Down with Love is an American romantic comedy motion picture released in the United States on May 9, 2003. It stars Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce, Sarah Paulson, and Tony Randall in his final film performance. The movie is an affectionate pastiche of the films made by Rock Hudson and Doris Day in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most notably Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961).

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American - Motion picture - May 9 - 2003 - Renée Zellweger - Ewan McGregor - David Hyde Pierce - Sarah Paulson - Tony Randall - Pastiche - Rock Hudson - Doris Day - 1950s - 1960s - Pillow Talk - 1959 - Lover Come Back - 1961

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The sets, costumes, cinematography, editing, score and special effects are carefully designed to give the impression that the movie was actually shot in 1962, even to the extent of digitally recreating the New York skyline and developing a greenscreen technique simulating 1960s rear projection. While the plot reflects the attitudes and behaviour of the pre-sexual revolution early sixties, the film has a subtext informed by more modern, post-feminist ideas and attitudes; the script mixing early 21st Century ideas with the type of light-hearted banter that dominated films of the early 1960s.

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Cinematography - Editing - Score - Special effects - New York - Greenscreen - Subtext - Post-feminist

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