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It's All About Love

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19% Tomatometer 31 Reviews 27% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
The planet has cooled down to the extent that it snows even in July and people are dying of mysterious causes, while the global economy is on the very brink of collapse. In the middle of this, John (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wife, the famous figure skater Elena (Claire Danes), are getting a divorce. John soon learns that Elena's family has cloned her, so they can continue to live off her success even after she stops skating, but they'll have to get rid of the original first.
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Critics Consensus

It's All About Love has ambitious ideas and an impressive cast, none of which are put to compelling use in this dramatically inert and narratively incoherent sci-fi drama.

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Antonia Quirke London Evening Standard 12/20/2017
In Vinterberg's hands, the unusual become usual and It's All About Love lulls you into trusting everything it shows. Go to Full Review
Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper 11/08/2004
It's like Kubrick with a talent-ectomy. Go to Full Review
Gene Seymour Newsday 10/29/2004
2.5/4
Doesn't add up to much. Go to Full Review
Kaleem Aftab The List 04/17/2019
4/5
By breaking the very rules that put this auteur on the map, Vinterberg seems to be redefining the experimental film form. Well worth catching. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
1/5
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 07/26/2005
2/5
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Nov 14 I can see why it was panned and I didn't love it either. A very surreal movie and hard to figure out or like. Happy to have watched it= not going to keep it for my collection. See more 12/12/2021 Actually like this movie and ended up watching it twice. It's strange and contorted. I've thought about it philosophically overall many times. It's much deeper than the surface relationship of the characters. See more 08/18/2014 "It's All About Love" is full of good intentions and promising surreal moments that are never fully realized in an entertaining way. Worth the viewing if only for Anthony Dod Mantle's brilliant camerawork that finds the compositions swaying left and right, thus creating a permanent state of unease. See more 11/17/2013 It is possible that "its All About Love" portrays a future world where everything is so fake that it goes beyond shallow to people intentionally being created as frauds to perpetuate the lies and the individuals are so brainwashed and drugged as to not even know that they are disposable fakes. They don't realize that they are all insane in one big fraud perpetuating machine of a world that they cannot perceive the world as it really is. The movie says that, even so, Love can still exist even if no one is sure what or who they are loving. In the end, the lover's do not know where they are going or why, but die together trying to get there together. I do not believe that even the news shows truth, 2 min of freshwater freeze everywhere, people flying without wanting to in Uganda, weather unrelated to the seasons, no one seems to know what day it is. With a drugged, fake, insane existence, what do we have left for ourselves, but some agreement between 2 people that they have love, even if they have nothing left, not even life. See more 10/08/2013 I'm trying to pretend this never happened, I wouldn't want a misstep as big as this to ruin my love for Thomas Vinterberg's films, which are nothing like this one by the way. In a world were people die on the street for some unexplained heart condition and no one does anything about it, a man (Joaquin Phoenix) with a strange accent visits his wife (Claire Danes) to get her to sign divorce papers, but they seem to still love each other and so they play like little kids and he watches her and her clones ice-skate. Meanwhile, Sean Penn is on a plane blabbering about love (also in a strange accent) and has no interaction with any other characters. He's just writing a letter on a plane that is about to crash. Thomas Vinterberg's films aren't really known for their technical aspects, but for their emotional aspects. I couldn't feel anything at all during the whole movie, there really wasn't anything good in it. I really loved "Dear Wendy", which is one of his lesser known works and thought this could be a good film, I was wrong. I actually hadn't seen a bad film of his, they're either great films (Festen, The Hunt), fun and original (Dear Wendy), or at least worth a watch (Submarine). Stay away from this film, watch any other film by Thomas Vinterberg but not this one. See more 06/10/2013 It's more about boredom. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The planet has cooled down to the extent that it snows even in July and people are dying of mysterious causes, while the global economy is on the very brink of collapse. In the middle of this, John (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wife, the famous figure skater Elena (Claire Danes), are getting a divorce. John soon learns that Elena's family has cloned her, so they can continue to live off her success even after she stops skating, but they'll have to get rid of the original first.
Director
Thomas Vinterberg
Distributor
Focus Features
Production Co
CoBo Fund, Nimbus Film
Rating
R (Sexuality|Scene of Strong Violence|Some Language)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 18, 2003, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 5, 2019
Runtime
1h 45m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SR