Movie Review

Listen to my Heart

By: Frédérick Hallé

DVD cover

 In the movie Listen to your Heart, directed by Matt Thompson, a man working in a small café, also a writer and singer meet this deaf girl and fall in love but they’re having a hard time because of her overbearing mother.

I had never heard of this movie, which premiered in 2010 and I watch a lot of movies. I guess that you probably have not heard of it and if you did you probably haven’t watched it because it wasn’t among the top movies even though it was at three international Film festivals in New York, Rhode Island, and Fort Lauderdale Respectively. This movie didn’t get much exposure because there is no name like Brad Pitt or Julia Roberts.

You can have all sorts of emotion in this movie going from sad to frustrating and joy able, due to the great characters and the music that was really well chosen.

Actor Kent Moran had a major role in this film, being Danny the man who fell in love with Ariana, played by Alexia Rasmussen. Also two other important characters were Cybill Shepherd who was the overbearing mother, Victoria, and Danny’s best friend played by Frank Watson alias Roger.

Danny works in a small café when one day, Ariana walks in with her mom. At that second you know how he feels and you hope for the best just like he does. He gives his number to Ariana but she obviously can’t call him. More than 2 weeks later, she walks in by herself this time and communicates with him. They end up seeing each other but mostly in secret because Victoria, Ariana’s mom, take control over her life. They end up falling in love but her mom is being ridiculous and makes it impossible for Ariana to see or communicate with Danny. Ariana’s life seems to be miserable because of her mom. Everything end up well when she finally decided that she had enough of her mom and let her know that she is in control of her life and go see Danny. They lived great moments but Danny will eventually past away.

Ariana and Danny's first kiss.

As I said earlier this movie has moment of joy, sadness and frustration.

All through the movie you will be able to feel joy when the music comes on and the cute couple lives great moments. The hardest part is every time the mom comes up on the screen. To be honest I wanted to punch my screen at certain times because she was making me really angry. She was taking every decision for her daughter and she didn’t seem to love her. When you see Ariana looking out by the window or trying to send letters to Danny, you have this sad feeling, and at the end when you find out why Danny will past out.

The scenes are really easy to understand, nothing is complicated and there isn’t an intrigue. I would say that it is more of a girl’s movie because it’s sentimental and at some point it gets really sad but I still recommend it to everyone.  This movie has something special.