When Love Comes (1998, New Zealand)

An interesting love story. A singer, Katie Keen (played by Rena Owen) was big in America but she is now past her best, and has come home to New Zealand. She looks up an old boyfriend but he is now in a relationship with a youngish waster. Things get a bit introspective while she decides what to do with her professional life and her love life. The happy ending is well constructed and although the film is rather slow, it is more entertaining than some in this genre.

Variety magazine describes Katie keen as a transvestite, but this is wrong. She refers to herself in her singing career as a "queen" a couple of times, but that is not any reference to gender issues, and late in the film, in the beach bonfire scene, she describes how she had a miscarriage in the past.

HF February 2008

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