Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
- Released: 2015-07-06
- Runtime: 134 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Stars: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin, Ugo Fox, Juan Saavedra, Gaspar Noé, Isabelle Nicou, Benoît Debie, Vincent Maraval, Déborah Révy, Xamira Zuloaga, Stella Rocha, Omaima S., Nikita Bellucci, Angell Summers, Ian Scott, Anna Polina, Kelly Pix
- Director: Gaspar Noé
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- visualsbyalan - 1 March 2024
Shockingly Explicit, But Ultimately Hollow Exploration of Love
Gaspar Noé, the controversial director behind films like "Irréversible" and "Enter the Void", sets out to explore "the organic dimension of being in love" with his uncensored and explicit drama "Love".
The film follows Murphy, a young American filmmaker in Paris, who grapples with fatherhood, lost love, and his own artistic desires. Noé throws us into a world of graphic sexuality, both heterosexual and homosexual, with the intention of pushing boundaries and challenging cinematic norms.
While the film's explicit scenes are certainly attention-grabbing, they are not entirely groundbreaking. Many directors before Noé, like Lars von Trier and Catherine Breillat, have explored similar territories. "Love" feels more like another entry in a long line of films testing the boundaries of what's acceptable, rather than a groundbreaking piece of art.
However, where "Love" falters is in its characters and narrative. Murphy and the other central characters are one-dimensional and uninteresting, and the film's plot is meandering and self-indulgent. The constant barrage of explicit scenes and shock value tactics become tiresome after a while, leaving the audience feeling cold and emotionally distant.
Ultimately, "Love" is a film that might shock and titillate with its graphic content, but it fails to offer anything deeper or more meaningful. Compared to films like "Shortbus" which achieved a better balance between explicit content and engaging characters, "Love" feels empty and emotionally hollow.
If you're looking for a film that pushes boundaries and tests your tolerance for graphic content, then "Love" might be worth a watch. However, if you're looking for a film with a compelling story and well-developed characters, you're better off looking elsewhere.
6.025/10. - urkus - 3 September 2022
My life at Madrid
When I was younger I lived like the film. I had a girlfriend, she used a lot of drugs, she put me thru them, thru the people and places that we lived in Madrid wen we were studying. That's why Gaspar touches my heart with that movie.
Gaspar Noe shows you the life without e lies, he shows you the reality, the reality of sex, of drugs, of cumming, of living a life that you don't want or don't deserve.
To my opinion he is one of the greatest artist in the cinema. Constructing worlrds that bring you to another state of mind. You watch a film of him and when it finished, you feel like been drugged without drug. He has the hability to enter inside your mind, transform it and then play with it. Like a substance would do..
I see my self in most of the scenes of these movie and feel the anger of why people don't understand his cinema. He makes you feel the pain like you would be in the film, not only physical, but also psycological. Very few people like Lynch or Bela Tarr makes you feel that.
Noé is an underrated filmaker. This movie is just a piece of art like all of his. And you know when you go to cinema to see one of his films that, you will be travelling inside the movie, because he dominates the audiovisual language with a great talent.
Gaspar Noe creates art, he creates something new everytime. He is a tremendous artist. 8 stars out of 10.
