You know those movies that remind you that falling in love is beautiful but losing someone you love can completely change your life? Well Love of Your Life is one of those stories.
Love of Your life is not about finding love, it is also about heartbreak, grief....healing and learning how to live again when life refuses to follow the plans you made for yourself....
The story follows Maya, played by Margaret Qualley, a nurse living in Boston, she is busy with her career when she meets Charlie played by Gabriel Basso, their connection grows into a romance and before long they find themselves building a future together....
Their relationship moves quickly , sometimes when you meet someone who feels right you do not need years to understand how much that person means to you.... Maya and Charlie fall deeply in love, their relationship eventually leads to marriage, and for Maya it feels like she has found her person, the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with.
Unfortunately life has plans....
The COVID-19 pandemic arrives, turning their lives down, Maya works as a nurse during an exhausting period when healthcare workers are desperately needed, While she cares for people, her own world begins to fall apart.
Charlie, who has asthma contracts COVID 19, because Maya works shifts at the hospital she cannot be physically present with Charlie the way she wants to be, Maya and Charlies communication becomes limited to video calls making a painful situation even more difficult..
Then the unimaginable happens. Charlie dies.....
Imagine spending your days trying to save peoples lives while the person you love most is fighting for his own life... then imagine losing that person while you are unable to be beside him, that kind of heartbreak is difficult to put into words.
After Charlies death Maya struggles to deal with her grief, instead of facing the pain and everything that reminds her of Charlie, she makes the difficult decision to leave Boston and distance herself from the life Maya once knew.
Maya also cuts herself off from Jason, her longtime friend, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jason cares about Maya, her decision to disappear leaves their friendship complicated.
Maya eventually travels to Portugal, where she begins a chapter as a digital nomad, she is trying to find herself, even though she is still carrying the emotional weight of everything Maya has lost.
During this journey Maya meets Felix, played by Aaron Pierre. Felix and Maya's connection gradually awakens feelings she thought she might never experience again, Felix offers Maya the possibility of intimacy and love, opening her heart again is not as simple as meeting some body new.
Maya must confront her past , understand what she truly wants and accept that loving someone new does not mean betraying the person she lost....
As Maya's journey continues through portugal and london she slowly begins to understand that healing, is not about forgetting the past healing is about learning how to carry the past without letting it control every part of her future..
Love of Your Life is a romantic drama, about the unexpected ways love can change us, what I find interesting is that Love of Your life does not pretend that finding another person automatically fixes a heart.
Sometimes you lose the life you thought you would have, you have to find the courage to build another one.
Honestly that is a lesson worth remembering....
Rating: 80/100
