Last night I went to watch this movie with Rowan and a few friends. It was brilliant! Rowan booked the tickets during the day - I'd never heard of the movie before, but he told me it was 'british' and 'funny'. I was skeptical, imagining something similar to your typical BBC comedy, or something Monty Python-esque. (I'm not really a fan.) But british cinema and comedy has taken a definite turn for the better over the course of the last few years, and Confetti was more along the lines of a film such as Love, Actually. (Actually, one of the main characters was the naked-model-guy from Love, Actually - I can't remember what his name is. Anyway.)

Confetti was laugh-out-loud funny. It's about a competition hosted by a wedding magazine called Confetti. Three couples compete to have the most original wedding, with the winners supposedly getting a house at the end of it. The couples are all extremely different: one pair is a set of tennis-obsessed bad-losers, another is a pair of 'naturalists' living in a nudist colony and wanting to wed in the nude, and the last is a sweet pair of middle-class folks, who share a very deep love of musicals. There is a fourth couple in the form of the wedding planners - a pair of screaming queens who always dress the same, and are absolutely loveable.

So, each of the couples (with the aid of the wedding planners) embarks on putting on the most original wedding ceremony. One couple recites their vows to each pother as they play a game of tennis, another recite poems to each other in the nude, the last couple sings their vows to each other in the style of a 1930s musical.

The characters are bizarre, the weddings end up being nothing short of absurd, but somehow the movie strikes home in a very real way. The director of this movie uses a very similar technique to what Josef Heller did when he wrote Catch-22: she uses comedy and absurdity to highlight some very serious issues. Confetti is not about gimmicky weddings, but is in fact about the trials soon-to-be-weds face. From interfering but well-intentioned relatives, to worries about adjusting one's own lifestyle to fit in with that of a future partner's, to the fear we may not be able to offer a future partner any reasons to stay married to us.

Confetti started out hilarious, and although it never stopped being funny, it became quite sad in places. It was touching and sweet (for the girls), had lots of un-hot naked people in it (for... well... anyone, I guess?), had lots of gayjokes (for the guys - straight and gay), and was generally excellent all round. Go see it.

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