‘A Perfect Pairing’ Review: Going Down For Wine And Romance


Contrary to some claims, romantic comedy isn’t dead when it comes to feature films: It’s just stuck on repeat.

Netflix’s new movie “A Perfect Pairing” (most of them) shares the same name as a Hallmark movie that premiered earlier this year. The Hallmark painting used the credible plot of “woman is reawakened to life and love by amnesia and a magical place.” Directed by Stuart McDonald, this painting is more of a not-so-different ‘urban go-getter being enchanted by a magical place and the hunk hanging out there’ mode.

Here, Victoria Justice plays Lola, who works for a dumb wine importer in Los Angeles. After getting an account stolen from under by a loose-mouthed colleague, it goes out on its own. Her first project is to get the rights to a great Australian wine by defrauding a female vintner at her winery and B&B.

The journey doesn’t quite go as planned, and Lola gets a job as a jackeroo at the winery’s nearby sheep farm – the term explains.

Spoiled enough to look like she’s overcaffeinated, Lola often messes things up – “What a flock!” Some sheep are screaming as they go off the road. Farm manager Max (Adam Demos) is the obligatory love interest guarding a secret that most viewers would guess before Lola knew about it.

While many Hallmark movies are largely locked into the rest of Toronto and Ontario for location, “A Perfect Match” is pretty upscale in Australia’s vineyard beauty. Even the more nose-burning aspects of sheep farming are somehow visually pleasingly depicted.

Everything is so dissonant that it also feels like the forced girl-girl-girl-girl thing love-conquers all-before the finale, jolting awake during a dream of drowning in butterscotch sunsets.

A Perfect Match
Not rated. Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes. Watch on Netflix.



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