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Sweet Romantic Connections Weave through ‘The Seasons — Four Love Stories’ (Movie Review)

Mike Szymanski
5 min readFeb 15, 2023

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The Seasons — Four Love Stories

Rating: 8/10

Director and Writer: Paul Schwartz

Style: Romance

Time: 82 minutes

Trailer: https://www.vimeo.com/745909945

Website: https://www.paulschwartz.com/new-page-1

Reviewed by Mike Szymanski

The Autumn segment with Anna Holbrook, Kathleen Simmonds and Brian Hotaling

Romantic films are tough sells these days, because they tend to sway toward the schmaltzy, ridiculous and painfully obvious. Not so here.

This series of beautiful and simple love stories not only give us hope for the future, but hope for romantic movies. And it’s sure to put a smile on your face by the end.

Cleverly told through the use of the Four Seasons, each segment involves a different season of love. Spring is for the youth, Winter is for an elderly couple — you get the drift.

The music, put together by the writer/director Paul Schwartz, is a delightful collection of classics and appropriate orchestration for each segment. They represent the…

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Mike Szymanski
Mike Szymanski

Written by Mike Szymanski

Journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood.

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