Wizard Molok kills a scientist, and plans to do the same with Michael Firth, a famous inventor. Molok has this plan because Firth can save a little baby from obtaining witchcraft, which would mean a normal human life. When Firth arrives from New York to France, he meets the baby's mother, young witch Morgane, and spends a night with her in the forest. Tomorrow, Morgane and Firth drive to a castle to meet Morgane's mother. When Molok finally finds Firth, Morgane promises that she will not use Firth to save her child from witchcraft if Molok spares Firth's life. Morgane falls into a coma, so Firth himself saves the baby from Molok and escapes to the castle. When Molok catches up to him, Firth sets him on fire and transforms him into water, while Morgane wakes up.
After two interesting, darkly weird feature length films starring kids, "The Passage", about how people are at the mercy of destiny, and "Deadly Games", about how a kid is at the mercy of a burglar who invades his mansion, director and screenwriter Rene Manzor made a departure to this more "light" film, a weak, but proportionally sympathetic and straightforward fantasy comedy romance "A Witch's Way of Love". It takes an unusual topic of a good witch, Morgane (a charming Vanessa Paradis), but overall it lacks humor, emotions or inspiration, and is a solid film, but nothing more (or less). Had Manzor followed the tone of the storyline and dedicated more humor, he could have gotten a better result than this one, which sometimes looks like an overstretched version of the TV series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch". The film has no irritating or illogical flaws, yet no truly great moments, either. While Jean Reno astounds in the untypical role of a villain Molok, Paradis is the real highlight here, and one almost wishes she was in a better written film than this one.
Grade:+
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