Johnny Depp – softly comic, genuinely romantic, all seemingly on a whim – nicely embodies the tone of this quirky little romantic fable, in which Depp plays a young man who believes he is the world’s greatest lover and Marlon Brando is the doctor who intends to cure him of his amorous delusion. Of course, Brando too falls under his spell. Writer-director Jeremy Leven – who hasn’t directed since – crafts a whimsical, modern fairy tale about how one man’s distortion of reality can rejuvenate another man’s stagnant grip on reality. This is charming, especially for anyone who has experienced love, whether fleeting or lasting, real or imagined.
