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It is a movie that celebrates life and is incredibly hopeful, Woodley, 22, said in an interview. It is about falling in love for the first time and the beauty of being in love, and all the trials and tribulations and glory that comes from that. Woodley and Elgort play smart, witty teenagers who begin a romance after meeting at a cancer support group. I fell in love with the story and the relationship between Augustus and Hazel, said Woodley, who wears a nasal cannula and wheels around a portable oxygen tank throughout the film. I also loved that, at the age of 16, Hazel understood that you don t need to live a long life to lead a meaningful life. Hazel and Augustus, who lost a leg to the disease, are fun-loving and never let their illness define them. Although cancer is the backdrop, Elgort said, it is not the focus of the story. What it does do is put a clock on things, which makes things interesting because I think it allows both characters to live in the moment, the 20-year-old actor explained.Academy Award nominee Laura Dern (Rambling Rose) plays Hazel s protective mother, Frannie. Nat Wolff is the couple s friend, and Willem Dafoe, who won Oscar nods for Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire, is the elusive Peter Van Houten, the author of Hazel s favourite novel.Perplexed by the book s unsatisfactory ending, Hazel and Augustus travel to Amsterdam to meet Van Houten and learn the fate of the book s characters.For director Josh Boone ( Stuck in Love ) the film was always about two young people in love. To me it just seems like I hadn t seen a movie like this before, done this way, with characters like this, with a love story like this. I just thought it was a fascinating backdrop to talk about illness and death and life and family, he said. Shailene Woodley s stellar workLet s start with the obvious. For its core audience, The Fault in Our Stars is essentially critic-proof. If you re a fan of the wildly popular young-adult book by John Green, and have already shed tears at its story of teenage cancer patients learning about life, love and sex as they fight to stay alive, then you ll be a fan of this movie. Slam dunk. Go buy your ticket. But of course, you probably already have. The situation becomes more nuanced, though, for those who haven t read the book. Both author and fans have pronounced the movie, directed by Josh Boone, extremely faithful to the novel, but does that make for the optimal cinematic experience? Many films have failed, after all, for adhering too strictly to the written page.Happily, we can report that The Fault in Our Stars is, despite the occasional misstep in tone, largely a solid success a film that not only manages the transition from page to screen nicely, but also navigates with skill that hugely tricky line between the touching and the trite, the moving and the maudlin.And that latter task ain t easy. But there s one major reason that the movie succeeds in this regard. Her name is Shailene Woodley. It s hard to believe it s only been two years and change since Woodley s breakout performance in The Descendants.Don t you feel like you ve known her much longer? Perhaps it s because she s established herself so firmly as one of our most interesting and yet also most grounded, honest young actors. Her mere presence lends an air of authenticity to whatever else is happening onscreen.That s particularly crucial in the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with an easy wit intelligent, wry and pragmatic without being overly cynical. Hazel barely survived thyroid cancer as a preteen; a flashback shows the agonizing moment when her mother (a touching Laura Dern, in a difficult part) told her it was OK to let go. But Hazel didn t, and now, buoyed by an experimental drug, she s already taking college classes. She wears nasal tubes, which carry oxygen from the portable tank she carries with her always. Urged by her doting parents to try a cancer support group, she reluctantly attends, and there meets Gus better known to readers as Augustus Waters (the appealing Ansel Elgort), along with his sidekick, Isaac (Nat Wolff). Gus is handsome very handsome and somewhat cocky, though clearly this is a fighting mechanism. Gus has lost a leg to cancer, but he s apparently in remission, and determined to live not just any life, but an extraordinary one.But what defines an extraordinary life? The movie explores this theme as it follows Hazel and Gus to Amsterdam. Their goal: to meet Hazel s favourite author, Peter Van Houten (a suitably crusty Willem Dafoe), and ask questions about his novel, An Imperial Affliction a book with which Hazel is obsessed.The trip is by turns disappointing, inspiring, joyful, and tragic. A crucial love scene is beautifully handled, with nary a false note. It s unfortunate that an earlier moment, involving a trip to the Anne Frank House, feels uncomfortable cheesy, and, in its juxtapositions, somewhat tone-deaf. It s important to note that the scene and the rationale behind it is conveyed far more successfully in the book.But that s a rare misstep. 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