The Lake House

Louis: *** Angela: ***

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are back together again in this romantic fantasy. The two, while corresponding via letters, discover that they're both living at the same lake house only at two different times - one two years later than the other.

Prior to seeing it, I read a few reviews that criticized the film for some "temporal issues" (often associated with time travel stories) as well as the "dialogue-like" conversations between the two (which would be extremely difficult if they were actually corresponding via written letters). I wasn't bothered by this, in fact it seemed to bring a more abstract, theatrical quality to the film at times.

With the story set in Chicago and several of the characters being architects, I recognized many of the locations used in the film. Besides the more obvious ones (Daly Plaza, Millennium Park, etc.), the father's den was shot at the Prairie Avenue Book Store on Wabash. The office of one of the architects was shot in the office of one of my old clients in the Santa Fe Building on Michigan and Jackson - there's actually a picture of one of my projects on the wall in one scene.