''Rosaline' gives modern tropes and dialogue to the original 16th century setting of 'Romeo and Juliet.' There are fun moments but not enough heat,' writes Tribune critic Nina Metz.
“Rosaline” is a fresh and comedic twist on Shakespeare’s classic love story “Romeo & Juliet,” told from the perspective of Juliet’s cousin Rosaline From left: Rosaline and Romeo .
Well, for one: The play ends in tragedy! Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber get around that by focusing not on the two star-crossed lovers of the Houses Capulet and Montague, but on Juliet’s cousin Rosaline .Romeo falls head over codpiece for Juliet at a masquerade ball.Only days earlier, he was making hot-and-heavy balcony visits to Rosaline. But teen love, it be fickle. And the moment he got a look at Juliet, his eyeballs turned to hearts and Rosaline was but a faint memory.
Complicating matters is a handsome young stranger named Dario who her father is foisting on her to marry. “Hello,” Dario says upon their first meeting. “Whatever,” is Rosaline’s reply.
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