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Murphy (Karl Glusman) is an American living in Paris who has a highly sexual and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra (Aomi Muyock). Unaware of the seismic effect it will have, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
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Critics Consensus

Love sees writer-director Gaspar Noé delivering some of his warmest and most personal work; unfortunately, it's also among his most undeveloped and least compelling.

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Judy Berman Flavorwire 09/21/2017
That philosophical freedom is what gives his earlier films value, and the lack of it is what makes Love, with its adherence to worn-out binaries, a disappointment. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman BBC.com 12/08/2015
2/5
It's bold, fleshy and audacious, at least in theory. But it is also numb. Go to Full Review
Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard 11/22/2015
After a slow start Noé's self-referential soap proves more-ish. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Jul 20
1/5
The result is a varying degree of acceptance of explicitness within the artistic medium of film and an embitterment of what goes against tolerances and is refused as art. Go to Full Review
D.M. Palmer Vague Visages 11/09/2023
Noé once again conflates pleasure and death, regarding them as being part of the same process — that every sensation sets in motion the negation of that energy, that each merging carries the germ of dissolution. Go to Full Review
Edward Lawrenson The Big Issue 09/21/2023
Love is bound to wind some people up, and it is overlong and a little clunky. But it is also a serious, honest, nakedly earnest piece of film-making. Go to Full Review
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@amandawrites 3d This is definitely not a film for everyone. Anyone who watches Love must have an open mind to understand the vision of the highly controversial Gaspar Noé. If viewers can strip away their prejudices and move past the shock of explicit sexuality, seeing Love in its raw and exposed form, they will encounter a complex film about love and emotional dependence. The characters are not charismatic in the slightest, and this is not a film that leaves audiences rooting for anyone — perhaps not Noé’s intention, but rather a deliberate choice to tell a story without gloss or grand spectacle, one that feels intimately realistic. See more Claudio C Dec 9 Too Long and Pretentious (12,118 – 09 Dec 2025) In Paris, the American cinema student Murphy meets the Arts student Electra and they live together for two years, One day, they decide to have a three some with their new next door neighbor, the sixteen-year-old Omi, When Electra travels in the weekend, Murphy has sex with Omi, his condom breaks and Omi gets pregnant. Electra leaves him and disappears, and Murphy recalls their life of drugs, booze and sex, and their struggles while misses her. "Love" (2015) is a too long and pretentious movie by Gaspar Noé. This flick is indeed a porn with a short story fulfilled by explicit sex scenes, most of bad taste. The acting is inexistent; the screenplay and the edition are awful; The lighting is not good. The cast is formed by unknown actresses that accepts the explicit sex scenes, probably looking for a chance in the cinema industry. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "Love" My Blog: https://maniacosporfilme.wordpress.com/ See more EJ G. @Artist_Lens Sep 27 Disclaimer, all ratings are based on the following criteria: 5 star great 4 star good 3 star decent 2 star poor 1 star awful See more EE D Sep 8 One of the best movies of all time! Noa manages to put on the screen how one feels when all the emotions combine- falling in love, love, lust, sex, anger, envy, regret, compassion. this movie feels like being young and confused again, which is a masterpiece! See more Lloyd S Aug 6 More like depravity than love. Gaspar thinks that love is about sex, but instead it's about the soul. The movie proved to be more like a porn fantasy born from a sexually unsatisfied man. There was nothing about live in it, but more like being stuck in a boring relationship. A waste of time. I've got distracted many times while watching it because the plot was confused and the movie too long. I kept thinking when was going to end as I was tired of watching it. See more Vince C May 8 Murphy thinks with his dick and defines "Love" with it. so we get to see it a lot, in 3D. But the vaginas are pixellated out. He is unfaithful; his partners are not free once he has ditched them. He cries because life is so hard. Feminism 101. It has a timeline that is contorted, trying to make it arty. It's no more interesting than watching paint dry. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Murphy (Karl Glusman) is an American living in Paris who has a highly sexual and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra (Aomi Muyock). Unaware of the seismic effect it will have, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Director
Gaspar Noé
Producer
Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, Gaspar Noé, Edouard Weil, Rodrigo Teixeira, Genevieve Lemal
Screenwriter
Gaspar Noé
Distributor
Alchemy
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 30, 2015, Limited
Runtime
2h 14m