Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas

Although the fishing is the least involved in movie (contradictory to the title of the film), and presence of romance is minimal (officially is under that genre), I will use the word ‘charming’. Hallström’s very distinctive style.

Director Lasse Hallström does indeed have distinctive titles behind his signature, often with ‘warm’ stories about the positive traits of the human character… I’ll remind you of just a few of them: ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’, ‘Chocolat’, ‘Hachi’…

This title is closest to his three-year newer title ‘Hundred-Foot Journey’, mostly because of the theme of merging two different cultures.

McGregor in the role of Dr. Fred, an expert of the fish world with specific sense of humour, brings us a liquid Scottish accent and a superb reseming of a middle-aged scientist who gets a lovable young businesswoman of character in the exact opposite of his, for a colleague in a (let’s call it) science project.

The charismatic E.Blunt is more and more sympathetic to me with every new movie. Somewhere more or less shines, depending on how role allows it. I really liked her performance here, the great tandem was with McGregor.

About the movie? The silly idea of growing and fishing salmon in Yemen came at the request of a wealthy sheikh, approved by the British government to calm political tensions in the Middle East, and maintain good relations with each other.

We’re going to ignore small omissions in the script, like the inexhauste sadness of the doctor’s companion for the (officially dead) guy she’s been in a relationship with for whole three weeks.

The chemistry that develops between dr. Fred and his young colleague is very likable to watch, almost two hours of movie wasn’t boring at any point.