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Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love would be an enthralling but a little far fetched romantic novel - if it were fiction. However it’s actually the memoirs based on a year in the life of author Elizabeth Gilbert which dominated the New York Times best seller list for years. At 32 New York starts to feel surprisingly small with her ex husband Stephen (Billy Crudup) and fading boy-toy David Piccolo (James Franco) still pining after her long past their expiration date. Liz (Julia Roberts) sets off on a voyage of discovery starting in Italy where she eats her way into the next jean size and then seeks spiritual nourishment at an Indian Ashram. She completes her soul search by revisiting Ketut Liyer (Hadi Subiyanto) an Indonesian shaman in the tropical paradise of Bali where love waits for the taking. But will she take it this time around? The role is a huge challenge for Roberts who is in every scene of this two and a half hour film and for the most part rises to the occasion but being two years older than the now 41 year old Gilbert I’m reminded of Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea being beyond believable playing someone so much his junior. And you’d think polished veterans like Roberts and Javier Bardem as Felipe her end game love interest could effortlessly produce some incendiary chemistry but we got more on screen passion between Liz and her Roman pasta than her Balinese boyfriend.

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