My Fault London, a remake of the Spanish film based on the Culpables trilogy by Mercedes Ron, is available exclusively on Prime Video.
The film, which revisits the original story, offers a new chapter in the saga with a new setting. After the success of the Spanish movie Culpa Mía, based on the first Culpables novel, Prime Video is trying to focus on this British version directed by Dani Girdwood and Charlotte Fassler.
The film features the same narrative structure as the original, a less warm aesthetic and an English-speaking cast that tries to bring a breath of fresh air to the love story between Noah and Nick. However, while the screenplay may have seemed satisfactory, the new television version of the story fails to match the emotional intensity of the original.
The film is well packaged for the audience, but it did not excite us due to the lack of chemistry between the protagonists, a narrative pace and a general climate that did not manage to overwhelm us as we would have liked.
My Fault London tells the story of a forbidden attraction:
The plot of My Fault: London follows Noah, a young American forced to move to London after her mother's marriage to the wealthy William Leister. The change is total: from her simple and independent world, the girl is catapulted into a reality made of luxury, rigid rules and an adopted stepbrother; while Nick perfectly embodies the cliché of the rebellious and mysterious bad boy.
The attraction between the two is rapid but conflicted, fueled by bickering and moments of tension that lead them to oscillate between desire and guilt. Meanwhile, Noah's past, marked by trauma and secrets, comes back to haunt her, threatening the already provisional balance of her new life...
The remake of Culpa Mía fails to touch the heart
Asha Banks, in the role of Noah, offers a fairly convincing interpretation, balancing vulnerability and character, although she does not always manage to convey the emotional intensity of her character, while Matthew Broome, in the role of Nick, respects all the characteristics of the "bad boy", but is probably not magnetic (as was Julio Peña Fernández, so irresistible in the Spanish version).
The chemistry between the two actors is not strong enough to make their bond the vibrant heart of the film: the moments they spend together (of intimacy and complicity but also those of conflict), which should have thrilled us and been the strong points of the show, appear much less engaging than in the original.
My Fault London: Conclusion
To conclude My Fault: London while it tries to bring a touch of supranationality to the story of Noah and Nick, is less intense and less engaging than the original and successful film and despite the new London setting, the new cast and a refined direction that could make it interesting in the eyes of a new audience.
Those who have seen, appreciated or even loved the Spanish version, will unlikely find in this film the same depth intensity, or acting style of the actors who had so thrilled us previously.
The setting of Culpa Mía helped to make the film more engaging, with a more direct and vibrant aesthetic, while in the remake everything seems more unnatural and distant and this negatively affects the emotional impact of the story that fails to leave its mark, despite the good performances of Asha Banks and Matthew Broome, who are accomplices (but not enough).