Love

Name: Love
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: October 30, 2015
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Aomi Muyock, Gaspar Noé, Juan Saavedra, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin

2015

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Alchemy | Release Date: October 30, 2015 | NC-17

Starring: Aomi Muyock, Gaspar Noé, Juan Saavedra, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Vincent Maraval

Summary: Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexual 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.

Director: Gaspar Noé

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: NC-17

Runtime: 135 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Oct 31, 2015

Even with its abundant flaws and its willingness to embarrass itself this strange and extraordinary film never lost me and never let me go; it wrapped me in a dreamlike rapture and then in a sense of profound and nearly universal personal tragedy. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Nov 2, 2015

This is not a rich, novelistic tapestry of humanity; this is a solipsistic world, enclosed on all sides by the director’s ego. But the entrapment is vivid and poignant. Look past all the beautiful people fucking, and you realize that Love is sad in all the right ways. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Oct 27, 2015

The couplings have an artful intensity lacking in pornography, which favors athleticism and disconnectedness, and the lighting — well, the best thing in the movie is the look of it all, which in a tony sex-flick counts for a lot. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Oct 29, 2015

Love, a movie with very little to say about relationships and even less to say about sex, is somehow one of the most interesting attempts any filmmaker has made in recent years at conveying the experience of memory. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 5, 2015

When Love works, Noé achieves a lulling, melancholic frenzy about sex and memory, but the foundation isn't strong enough to make his movie ever seem more than a stereoscopic fermata: one envelope-pushing note held way too long. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Oct 29, 2015

For all of its in-your-face, full-frontal sex scenes and threesomes (one involving a transsexual), this autobiographical story is almost sweet. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Nov 5, 2015

Good camerawork only goes so far. Love drags on and on, alternating between arguments and intimacy, breakups and makeups. The movie never passes the authenticity test; if this is what sex feels like, we’ll all soon be extinct. Read full review

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JCgirl

Nov 24, 2015

This film is absolutely genius! First of all, for anyone that gets caught up in the sex scenes, you probably haven't had sex, or even good sex for that matter, in years. If you have a loving relationship were you make love, you get this film. If you have a close relationship intimateThis film is absolutely genius! First of all, for anyone that gets caught up in the sex scenes, you probably haven't had sex, or even good sex for that matter, in years. If you have a loving relationship were you make love, you get this film. If you have a close relationship intimate wise you will understand the film. It's not appealing to the prude and those scared of their genitals, or those not in touch with themselves sexually.

if you have never had a serious physical bonding with someone you will never get the film and only be disturbed because people on the screen where doing the naughty. I love the scene in the bar where the french man is basically saying "you Americans don't know how to live, let you and your partner be free, you don't always have to have control, so I let another man F-- my wife, so, as long as she knows to come back, what's the problem?" Most Americans, not all, view sex like it's icky or something. Ever have make up sex, sex where it's ugly, crying, still kissing, everyone has experienced that I think, if not, then you haven't lived. I know there are a lot of prude Americans because they don't how to BE sexually in my opinion. That's why they get upset with the gays. It's always the conservative dude that probably hasn't had sex in 10 years or even shows affection to his wife. He's just there as a bill payer. Either way, the sex scenes in Love are honest, REAL and fluid. You should be able to get this no matter what age. It's funny to read comments from idiots that have to laugh at it or make gross comments. You don't get it. Gaspar - you tell a beautiful, moving story of REAL LIFE, brings us some more. You are brilliant.… Expand

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Theatralsoup

May 13, 2016

Is this film just about sex, just because it shows sexual actions in very explicit and many scenes? No its about love. This sex scenes were shoot in a very aesthetic, but also realistic looking way , not terrible over the top and totally stereotypical unrealistic like in many HollywoodIs this film just about sex, just because it shows sexual actions in very explicit and many scenes? No its about love. This sex scenes were shoot in a very aesthetic, but also realistic looking way , not terrible over the top and totally stereotypical unrealistic like in many Hollywood movies. But for me this movie is not just a pseudo-controversial-provocative film about sex. Its definitely about love. And you can feel that, also when you dont live in a relationship with someone. The cadres are beautiful, i love the long cuts and pauses with short black screens, which brings a huge charming, quiet and romantic atmosphere. Its also a ironic movie about film making and directing cliches, a funny way to say something about his love about movies. Also sometimes beeing very epileptic the film does need some time. But if you swim with its atmospheric, beautiful shot river, you will enjoy this!… Expand

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sofstavares

Nov 22, 2015

I really like the way that Gaspar Noé directs (I already seen irreversible and enter the void).
Love is a beautiful movie. The title is perfect. No other title could seem so perfect, because this movie really talks about love. Love with loss, love with intimacy, love with deep feelings.I really like the way that Gaspar Noé directs (I already seen irreversible and enter the void).
Love is a beautiful movie. The title is perfect. No other title could seem so perfect, because this movie really talks about love. Love with loss, love with intimacy, love with deep feelings. Everybody should see!… Expand

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Slipper

Nov 30, 2015

Sex scenes are not vulgar but they are not censored. Movie just flow from beginning to the end. Sometime boring, sometime erotic, acting is ok. Anyway, I didn't expect anything from it, so i'm not disappointed.

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hotfromcauldron

Nov 9, 2015

It’s a daring move for director Gaspar Noe to start "Love" off with a climax- but he’s a daring director with a career for cinephiles to follow. Martin a self professed sentimental romantic film student in Paris navigates love and commitment through the eye of his penis. Sex in love. Sex outIt’s a daring move for director Gaspar Noe to start "Love" off with a climax- but he’s a daring director with a career for cinephiles to follow. Martin a self professed sentimental romantic film student in Paris navigates love and commitment through the eye of his penis. Sex in love. Sex out of love. Sexual consequences as the same carnal acts are repeated as the partners drift apart. A transcontinental mating game that tries your patience yet still reveals some truths in between the sheets.… Expand

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Broyax

Jan 19, 2017

Dans le fond (!) c'est plutôt un bon porno habilement mis en scène qui jouit (!) d'une belle photographie et si les pornos de ce genre étaient plus nombreux, ce ne serait pas un mal ma foi : on a quelques bombasses premier choix, élevées au grain, naturelles, sans OGM ni plastique. LeDans le fond (!) c'est plutôt un bon porno habilement mis en scène qui jouit (!) d'une belle photographie et si les pornos de ce genre étaient plus nombreux, ce ne serait pas un mal ma foi : on a quelques bombasses premier choix, élevées au grain, naturelles, sans OGM ni plastique. Le hardeur -l'acteur pardon- est très motivé et donne (!) de sa personne.

Hélas, on regrette que ces jolies scènes soient si éparpillées parmi tant d'autres scènes, lesquelles se vautrent pour leur part dans un sentimentalisme pédant qui n'a vraiment aucun intérêt. Leurs dialogues d'un ridicule pathétique se disputent avec un scénario d'une rare indigence qui multiplie les retours en arrière ad nauseam.

En conséquence de quoi, nous conseillons à Monsieur Noé de se concentrer sur le cul et de virer tout le reste, tout le verbiage intello de petit étudiant bourgeois sur "l'amour" et les réflexions de comptoir qui vont avec. Merci.… Expand

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CameraBounceGod

Nov 30, 2015

cared nothing for the plot which seemed to be a guy morphs between two girlfriends ...the sex scene were like porn but the same.....this hole thing was just a butt porn so idk

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