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Few romantic comedies have aged with the easy charm of Notting Hill, Richard Curtis’s disarmingly gentle tale of love across the fame divide. Set in a decidedly postcard version of London, it follows bookshop owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant), whose life is upended by Hollywood star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts). What unfolds is a romance built less on grand gestures than on small, perfectly timed moments – awkward dinners, missed chances, and the now-iconic “just a girl” line.

Curtis’s script balances self-awareness with sincerity, while Grant’s stammering vulnerability meets Roberts’s luminous, shiny composure in a pairing that defined late-90s romcom chemistry. Beneath the fairytale gloss lies a wistful meditation on privacy, identity and the cost of being seen – perfect cinematic comfort in the grand old single-screen theatre at Mooby Aribau.

This is the third instalment of Mooby Aribau's Cinema Club with Gigi Vives, "a film club where every month we will screen an iconic film with an initial 30-minute discussion where we will talk about fun facts, filming secrets, curiosities about the director and the cast … in short, all the magic of cinema".