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‘This Is Me…Now: A Love Story’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Sells the Sizzle of Romance but Overcooks Her Personal Stake
Lopez packages her paparazzi-fed melodramas into an ambitious mini-movie promoting her latest album, 'This Is Me…Now.'
But as not only the subject but star, co-writer and executive producer of an interlinked series of music videos, Lopez showcases above all else how tough it is to express oneself personally after more than 30 years in the public eye, resulting in a just-shy-of-feature-length film that offers much to admire even if it’s not fully successful. Opening with the telling of the Puerto Rican myth of Alida and Taroo, lovers transformed into a flower and a hummingbird, Lopez (as “The Artist”) examines her own addiction to love, and the risks that come with falling hard, and fast, seemingly every time there’s an opportunity. She begins the film by saying, “What I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always … in love.” The music video segments further reiterate this: escaping the glass house of an abusive relationship in “Rebound”; cycling through three weddings simultaneously during “Can’t Get Enough” while her closest confidantes uneasily attempt to support her; pouring feelings out interpreted by fellow therapy-seekers on “Broken Like Me”; showing love to her childhood self with “This is Me… Now.” But Lopez is also, at her essence, a performer.
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