>This place being what it is, I am sure someone is going to jump in and say "Casablanca" is romantically indulgent or overrated. To them I say, Phooey <g>. The backstory alone is a movie -- lead actors and actresses dropping out (Bogart was a substitution), script being rewritten practically on the set, on and on. But they nailed it. I have thought of it several times since while working on a project that seemed to be falling apart.
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>If I have inspired one person to watch "Casablanca" for the first time, my work is done today <g>. Watch it with someone you like.

You may enjoy Kusturica's [spellable, by accident] "Black cat, white cat" (actually, black cat, white tomcat - translator failure in US distribution) which is part fairytale, part comedy, part Romeo/Juliet story and in part following bits of Casablanca, with a special nod in the finale.

And they speak Romani most of the time... which means nobody here should watch it. I mean, it's a movie in a minority language - now, do minorities have the rights to be heard on the screen?