Wild Mountain Thyme is written and directed by John Patrick Shanley who also wrote Moonstruck and Joe Vs The Volcano and stars Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt as two people from farming families in rural Ireland who grow up together as kids and find themselves sharing their farmland as adults as well as hiding romantic feelings for each other that are complicated when an American relative (Jon Hamm) comes to town.
Wild Mountain Thyme was a nice surprise as I wasn’t sure what to expect from it after seeing the preview for the film but I was nicely swept up in it for these reasons:
- Firstly rural Ireland looks gorgeous in this movie with its old houses and pubs, green grassland, rolling hills and river land the film does a great job showing off this part of the world and it will definitely make some people want to visit there once international travel opens up again.
- Secondly the films romance is a very nice one, two people who clearly love each other but don’t quite know how to properly express those feelings and Blunt and Dornan have nice chemistry together.
- And lastly this movie has a nice whimsical feel to it that really won me over, it could’ve been easy to have this be a darker romance or be like a Joe Vs the Volcano type of film but this had more of that whimsical feel to it and I appreciate that at the moment given the state of the world.
And so that was Wild Mountain Thyme and I’m surprised this won me over like it did, it was a nice whimsical romance that I didn’t know I needed right now, 3 out of 5.
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