LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT | Omeleto

A young man tries to impress his dream girl.

A young man looks out over his balcony and sees the woman of his dreams across the street. Seeking her attention, he tries gambit after gambit to win her over.

First, he seeks her attention by trying to play roles that she may find intriguing, but neither masculine posturing or pseudo-intellectual posing capture her attention. But just when he has given up, he gets an unexpected second chance -- and realizes there's another route to his beloved's heart.

Writer-director Mark Playne's sweet-natured, warm-hearted short romance has a charming, almost old-fashioned look and feel, as well as an unabashed pleasure in the inherent beauty and magic of cinema to transform and captivate viewers in its classic tale of love and courtship.

Told without dialogue, the storytelling nevertheless has a progression that's as old as time itself: boy sees girl, falls in love and tries to gain her attention. The pacing is aided by an excellent musical score, which shifts seamlessly from cafe music to jazz to plaintive guitars, capturing the flickering hopes and confusion of the striving main character. It's a pleasure simply to listen to the film on its own -- a creative strategy that also ties in beautifully at the film's conclusion.

The score also gives an inherent musicality to the film itself, which is also aided by its vibrant colors and sweeping camera movements. Though the city blocks are narrow and the apartments small, the visual approach injects movement and color into the story, endowing the setting and story with poetry and whimsy. The main narrative beats are interjected with short scenes of the city itself, full of dogs walking on the sidewalk, old men and women tending to friendships and homes and children playing in the street. These interjections open up the film -- and pay off with its lovely grace note of an ending, as the spell of love works itself in an unexpected way.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT harkens back to an earlier golden age of cinema, where films seek to entertain and transport audiences not just through engaging, emotional narratives but through the magic of moving pictures themselves. Through its lovely melding of score, sound and image, it's a sweet and charming romance that is unafraid of the inherent emotion of its genre.

And through capturing the beauty of a paper falling in the window, the colors of a building, or the humming of a beautiful girl in a cafe, it also encourages viewers to seek and behold the magic and romance of our own everyday lives -- a reminder and encouragement that is needed more than ever.

[lifeofmrd]

Look's like the girl was actually blind, and she felt him watching but couldn't see him, just after the typewriter's sound to her lead singing she heard him and knew he was into her, after that in the cafe that must had been her brother that she told him about this guy who was interested in her and the brother showed her where he is, and when she heard the connection of the sounds she just knew and when they touched it warmed my heart up before I just thought he was going to get drunk or something bad. The introverted behavior of the man and awareness of the blind girl despite her disability they got togeteher in the end thanks Mark Playne and Omeleto you made me smile ! Point of the story: even blindness is not an obsticule for love if we humans aren't making ourselves blind on purpose not knowing we may be rejecting true love...

[davidjensen]

Being a man who deals with a very complicated neurological disorder, known as Epilepsy, and never having been able to meet a girl of my dreams, I think this is wonderful!
I like the music, and how when the two finally meet you can tell that she is also attracted to him. I like how when he realizes that she's blind, he just tosses that aside and taps his cup to the rythme of her humming. Also how he taps her hand when she slowly slides her hand over to him, letting her know that he is also attracted to her. Definitely a beautiful story!

[matthewhardy]

I love seeing films from other countries because they open my eyes to so many wonderful things, but they also remind me of how many things are universal in nature.

[diwakarmishra]

"Love has no language"

Film is no exception.

[markjaysonsantos]

6:41 That child laughter ringtone. So nostalgic.

[tee]

such a gentle love story! and I love the parallel love story of the elderly man and woman

[filmreviewer]

Loved how you were able to tell the entire thing without a single word, beautiful.

[clasencoach]

Everything about this film is perfect. The setting, the filming, the atmosphere, the acting. The story. Hats off and deep bow!
This might be the most beautiful work of art I have ever watched on Omeleto. And I have watched a lot. Instead of being creative and find my love.

[dmsnm]

The guy pretended to be someone he's no at first and didnt get noticed. When he did sonething he truly loved (in this case typing with swag on a typewriter) he got noticed.
Be who you are and not someone who you're not

[LaFox]

This just reminds me of how much of a loner I am

[mariannaarmata]

Wonderfully filmed and told this love story without a single word. Brilliant!

[tietjen]

Charming! A welcome feeling during this worldwide tragedy. Thank you, Omeleto. Stay healthy everybody!

[vanmust]

A fantastic love story shot in a romantic environment where everything from old ladies to small pets to tiled little roads to worn walls to small balconies is so cute....it is more attractive than the ones we have here in our islands because there they let the time wear them....here in Greece we fix and paint them every spring for the tourists and they lose that attractiveness

[charjhean]

Unspoken words of Love and falling in love without sight. Beautifully displayed.💕💕💕

[alexsomething]

The cameraman's work is fantastic! What a beautiful compositions!

[hexxgrl]

I wish a guy would like me and be all weird like this. It’s cute.

[KoKo-bozm]

Connection found it's way beyond her blidness and his illiteracy.

[joshdiditt]

Legend has it, that typewriter inst the only thing he's tapping now. Lol

[matthewbridgelal]

She's such a beautiful girl ❤❤❤I kept listening to her humming it was so innocent and sweet ❤❤❤

[macdaddy]

Even though she was physically blind, she could "see" him. It was love at first "sight" for them both.