Beautiful '60s-style romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor
Barbara Novak is neither a spinster nor a crazy dumb blonde. She's just one of the successful authors of novels for women, just red library books to let women know how to properly treat men to preserve their rights. And as successful as Barbara is, she is to be interviewed by the successful Know magazine, for which she writes the local play boy Catcher Block, who has a new girl every day, a stewardess, an actress, just some pretty girl. Unfortunately, Catcher thinks Barbara is an ugly old maid and the interview never happens.
But once our dear Block realizes that the spinster is a beautiful blonde, he figures he just has to get her and make Novak fall in love with him. Block has a second reason to beat her back, because she's the author of the famous manual on how to make a woman in the 60s into a pretty big feminist who is exactly like men in everything, in moods, in sex, in behavior, and just everything Novak herself hates about men.
This is kind of a little introduction to the plot of a film made last year that pays homage to the beautiful and humorous films of the '60s that weren't about sex and bad words and action, but are about beautiful, polished dialogue and pretty good acting. And most of all about love, which is only in feelings and sex is only talked about in hints.
It wouldn't be a film without the performances. And so stars were cast in the lead roles. Namely Renée Zellweger, winner of two Oscars already, and Ewan McGregor, the famous Scot who made his name again in films such as Moulin Rouge. How good or not a film is supposed to be depends on the actors, and Renée and Ewan did their roles well enough. She, as Barbara, is a beautiful, even intelligent blonde, 
twirling against a gorgeous backdrop. Him as a sexy man, with a smattering of true sex symbolism, who just winks at a woman and already has her wrapped around his finger. And She and He are an absolutely perfect pair of people and actors who manage to elevate this film above the normal American production.
A proper sixties film can't be without good cinematography and styling. And so the whole film is coloured by colour filters. The actors' suits are highly stylized, and kitschy, as they were probably worn in that era of the 1960s.
And in conclusion, this review is admittedly written a bit late compared to the film's release in this country, but if they're still showing it, go see it. You'll understand proper romance, and most importantly have a nice time.
Original article March 19, 2004 – Kritiky.cz
