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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Falling in Love, it finds enormous romantic tension in chance meetings and ordinary routines, treating emotional restraint and the ache of an impossible connection with exceptional delicacy.
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Why this pick
A patient, adult romance built on quiet conversation, accumulating intimacy, and the moral weight of commitments already made; its unhurried tenderness closely suits Falling in Love.
03
Why this pick
Its exquisitely controlled visual mood and lingering pace turn neighbourly encounters into a deeply felt portrait of longing, restraint, and connection shadowed by marriage.
04
Why this pick
This gentle urban romance similarly lets small everyday exchanges grow into a meaningful emotional refuge, with warmth, melancholy, and compassion rather than melodrama.
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Why this pick
For the same sense of desire constrained by social expectation and existing relationships, this is a lush, observant adult romance where glances and withheld words carry the drama.
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01 / THE STORY
Christmas Eve. Commercial artist Molly Gilmore (Streep) and architectural engineer Frank Raftis (De Niro) are last-minute Christmas shopping in Manhattan. Frank meets his colleague Ed (Keitel) for drinks; Ed tells Frank he is getting divorced. Molly sees her friend Isabelle, who is married but plans to spend Christmas with another man; Molly also visits her sick father. Later that day, at the counter in a hectic Rizzoli Bookstore, Frank and Molly get their packages mixed up, and on Christmas Day Molly’s husband, Brian (Clennon), and Frank’s wife, Ann (Kaczmarek), each open the books that were meant for the other.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Frank Raftis
Molly Gilmore
Joe Raftis
Ed Lasky
Ann Raftis
John Trainer
Brian Gilmore
Isabelle
