PREVIEW: Book of Love (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sam Claflin (Me Before You), Verónica Echegui (You’re Killing Me Susana), Fernando Becerril (The Crime of Padre Amaro), Ruy Gaytan (film debut), Horacio Villalobos (Serafín: La Película), Horacio García Rojas (The Load), Lucy Punch (Bad Teacher), Edwarda Gurrola (The Pleasure Is Mine), Melissa Pino (Losing in Love), Daniela Luque (Bosco), Giovanni Florido (Polvo), Sofía Sisniega (The Boy Who Smells Like Fish), Galya Vidal (The Girlfriend Experience), Laura de Ita (Secondary Effects), Alejandro Bracho (Licence to Kill), Antonia Clarke (Magic in the Moonlight), Remmie Milner (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Analeine Cal y Mayor (The Boy Who Smells Like Fish), director, writer; David Quantick (film debut), writer; Naysun Alae-Carew (Anna and the Apocalypse), Maxime Cottray (Vivarium), Michael Knowles (The Pebble and the Boy), Allan Niblo (Human Traffic), Richard Alan Reid (Frat Pack), Nick Spicer (I Kill Giants) and Matt Williams (Save the Cinema), producers; Ian Livingstone (The Pebble and the Boy), composer; Gerardo Barroso (The Good Herbs), cinematographer; Berny McGurk (Accidental Anarchist) and Mark Thornton (A Bunch of Amateurs), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Young, uptight British author Henry (Claflin) is dismayed when his novel is poorly received, but soon discovers that it has become a surprise hit over in Mexico. However, when he is invited to the country to promote it, he is furious to learn that the success is due to his Spanish translator Maria (Echegui) rewriting it as an erotic novel, and that she will be accompanying him on a book tour across the country – but as they get to know each other better, sparks inevitably fly…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Sam Claflin goes full Hugh Grant in this Mexico-set romantic-comedy, where he shares sparky chemistry with co-star Verónica Echegui.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

SATURDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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