Young Werther

Year: 2024

Runtime: 1 h 42 m

Language: english

ComedyRomance

A charming young writer named Werther, while on a trip to Toronto, unexpectedly falls in love. However, he soon learns that the woman he loves is already engaged. Despite the advice of his eccentric best friend, Werther embarks on a misguided and humorous pursuit to win her affection, disrupting his own life in the process.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther: The novel adapted for Young Werther

A Young Artist Records His Consuming Love for Charlotte, Who Is Already Promised to Another Man, as Sensibility Turns from Exaltation toward Isolation and Despair · by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse

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Jose Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenco's film moves Goethe's triangle into contemporary Toronto, where carefree writer Werther becomes obsessed with Charlotte despite her engagement to dependable lawyer Albert. Letters become modern communication, social rank becomes professional and emotional mismatch, and the tragic endpoint is redirected into romantic comedy. The names, intrusive devotion, tolerant rival, and belief that feeling justifies persistence come from the novel even as the film argues with its consequences and genre.

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