What a waste of my time!!!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This Year's Love was released at a time in the fit of madness that followed Four Weddings And A Funeral, when everyone was desperate to rush out their very British romantic comedies. This Year's Love sadly got lumped it with all of these (generally poor) movies, which is a pity because it's one of the finest British films of the nineties.It's not cute, although it does have charm. It's not a comedy, although there are some very funny bits in it. It's not particularly romantic, although it's probably a lot more honest about love than anything Richard Curtis has ever written. What it is is an example of the kind of movie Britain can do like almost nobody else: a small, dense, focused study of well-written characters being slowly destroyed by their own flaws, unfolding gradually like a really great novel. It's dense and meaty and thoughtful and sad, and essential viewing for anyone who's left cold by the more treacle vision of the Four Weddings... school of movie-making.It does have a frantic dash to the airport at the end, I must admit. Although even that defies normal expectations.

I recognised the poster with the kissed frog, and there were some good people in it, so I wasn't going to dismiss it even if it is not as good as I hoped it would be. Basically a group of thirty-somethings flit around Camden Town swapping partners in search of love, lust and life. The stories include the marriage Danny (Primeval's Douglas Henshall) and Hannah (Catherine McCormack) ending after half an hour when his affair is revealed. Hannah leaves the reception, gets drunk, and beds artist Cameron (Enigma's Dougray Scott). Danny meanwhile is having almost a fling with Cameron's friend, struggling singer Mary (Kathy Burke). There is also the story of the relationship between comic book fan Liam (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone's Ian Hart) and Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), who almost can't seem to get away from each other. Also starring Emily Woof as Alice, Sophie Okonedo as Denise and Goodnight Mister Tom's Annabelle Apsion as the Speed Dating Hostess. For me, this film is interest is mainly with the Burke and Hart characters. Good!

Eager to make a Brit-flick romantic comedy, director David Kane carves out this disposable product called This Year's Love which is essentially about six different loser-characters living in London and swapping partners on and off for two years. There is no more depth to it that that, aside from the odd, half-hearted attempt to add more background to the characters. This is only successful in one of them, namely Kathy Burke's character of a self-deemed "fat bird" with no self-esteem and it is mostly because she plays her with effortless conviction that she is enjoyable to watch. This character is also one of the few sources for comedy in This Year's Love. I know the rest of the film tries to be funny but it never quite gets there; it barely manages smirkworthy.Aside from Burke, some other decent parts are the way these six characters meet. It never feels forced. You'd think that managing six intertwining relationships would be difficult to pull off, but this feels very natural in the film -- the characters meet in the most ordinary, normal and logical ways like in a pub, at an airport, at a supermarket or at an auction. After all, they all live in the same vicinity -- Camden. This Year's Love isn't bad exactly, but since it manages neither funny nor romantic I'd say this is a pretty fatal failure of a romantic comedy.4/10

Words that fill me with dread: 'A Joel Schumacher Film' obviously, 'A Romatic Comedy from London', equally horrid. Yet finally someone has got it right - not Joel Schumacher of course.Peter Kane's salty comedy is something quite new, an unsentimental, contemporary La Ronde set in Camden Lock. His bone dry script is adorned by a magic cast, not least the indomitable Kathy Burke, who is surely now England's greatest treasure. There is a real courage here, no corners are cut and no easy, neat solutions are adopted. If we are a little disgusted by the smugness of the artsy characters it is more than compensated for by their terrible sadness. Very human, very witty and beamed in from a different galaxy from the one that Hugh Grant inhabits.