Observer Film Quarterly- Richard Curtis

This article is about the film maker Richard Curtis & how his films such as Four Weddings are somehow related to politics. This article also shows his success as a film maker with movies such as Four weddings(1994), Mr Bean (1997), Notting Hill (1999), Bridget Jones(2001) & Love Actually(2003).
Four Weddings (1994) was seen as an optimistic & insatiable film which brought a new approach to his films.It was a very different british film as it was neither a 'kitchen sink drama' or 'carry-on smutty'.The movie had rich, educated middle class characters. This movie was released just after the death of John Smith from New Labour which created a new mood in britain, a sense that things will get better.But his recent film The Boat That Rocked was seen as 'College skit & big-budget disasters by the film reviewers but once again Curtis captires the political Zeitgeist.