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LOVE IN BLOOM

Australia, 2022, 83 minutes, Colour.

Susie Abromeit, Candice Hill, Julian Haig, Jason Wilder, Melina Vidler, Artin John, Monette Lee, Chanika Desilva, Stephen Tandy, Lin Yip.

Directed by Rogue Rubin.

Love and flowers, recipe for romantic comedies.

This film is from Stephen Jaggi, prolific producer of romance films, his company based in Queensland, and production, filming and postproduction in Queensland.

He was quite prolific in this kind of romantic comedy/drama in the first half of the 2020s. And this film could serve as a blueprint for the formula of many of them: open in the United States with a character in trouble, professional ambitions, difficulties with boyfriend, find an opportunity for her to go to Australia, be charmed by the surroundings, the friendly people, but misunderstandings with the man who turns out to be the handsome hero, working together, falling in love…

And this is what happens here. The young woman, floral expert, good business prospects in the US, boyfriend doctor who is caught up in his own ambitions. Her sister is in Australia, about to be married, but on a program with her fiance and their being stranded. Off to Australia, misunderstandings with the local vet, finding that he is her potential brother-in-law’s best friend, finding accommodation with the cosiest elderly couple seen on film, Mr and Mrs Poppy, their wonderful estate, the gardens, the range of flowers…

The heroine and the vet have to work together with all the planning for the wedding, she discovering inspiration with the local flowers, he gradually falling in love, encouraged by the cosy elderly couple, the arrival of the about to be a married couple, the wedding, the possibilities for the young woman to have success with an offer back in the United States, but, love not only blooms, it flourishes…