Instant feelgood: Lonely Planet on Netflix

After Adolescence I needed something light and positive without it being utterly superficial. I started with It Ends With Us, which I found a solid read, but a bit too polished (I mean: that napkin as a visual leitmotif, that was a bit too contrived, right?). But soon I found what I really needed: Lonely Planet.

Lonely Planet, my Netflix favorite

Lonely Planet may have a thin plotline: the successful writer Katherine Loewe, with a pressing deadline, goes to a writers‘ retreat in Morocco and accidentally meets – she specifically wants to avoid meeting people to finish her book – Owen Brophy, the partner of the young, handsome, and successful writer Lily Kemp, who is also at this retreat. He – a handsome thirty-something who prefers reading Sports Illustrated to quoting Shakespeare – feels out of place among all the elite authors and follows his own path a bit. Unintentionally, his path keeps crossing that of Katherine, who in many ways – success, love, and life – is his senior. A friendship slips into love, which will mean a turning point in their lives for both, without it becoming a sugar-coated fairy tale.

Why Lonely Planet is so enjoyable

Katherine Loewe is played by Laura Dern, who the older among us know from Wild at Heart, Jurassic Park, Big Little Lies, and the wonderfully beautiful The Fault in Our Stars. Owen is played by Liam Hemsworth, whom you probably know from The Hunger Games and as a very well-chosen ambassador for Hugo Boss perfumes. I mean: if it smells as good as it looks, it can't go wrong.

Timeless love

Just like in the series Inganno, where a woman in her sixties falls in love and marries a man who is only half her age, here too a woman over fifty falls in love with a younger person. This is done without the man being seen as a young plaything and her as a stepping stone to a love that you end up with. It is a layered, real love, where the age difference is visible but remains unnamed. And that, dear people, is exactly how it should be in my opinion.

Source: IMDB.com

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