Love

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Love

Released Oct 30, 2015

2h 14m

Drama

Romance

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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

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.

Sep 21, 2017

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Owen Gleiberman

BBC.com

It's bold, fleshy and audacious, at least in theory. But it is also numb.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 8, 2015

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

After a slow start Noé's self-referential soap proves more-ish.

Nov 22, 2015

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D.M. Palmer

Vague Visages

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.

Nov 9, 2023

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Edward Lawrenson

The Big Issue

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.

Sep 21, 2023

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

Beds, paintings, hallways, parks, bridges, windows, and cafes slip in and out. What is constant is the characters and their search for an honest connection.

Rated: 75/100

Aug 22, 2021

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Fil S

A more intensely erotic film, with nice shots, nice thinking, lots of gaspar, nothing else.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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Steve P

A raw film exhibiting the fine line of the emotion of love. Bordering between a chemically endorphin induced brain transformation to this sensation and the possibly unrealistic perceptions of an inseparable bond between two people. The overwhelming pleasure seeking, manifesting itself in immense passion. The awakening of the buried past childhood, or previous relationship trauma. The emotion of Love runs the gamut of falling for someone and as a result becoming acutely aware that in this vulnerable state one can be judged, controlled or abandoned. Love exposes insecurities which are often heightened. Here the couple tests the emotion by pushing boundaries and the pleasure principle with sexual trysts with strangers or group sex which immediately backfires with self doubt. Demonstrating the fragility of it all. The movie depicts this emotional and physical roller coaster ride, from beginning to end, with great bravery from the director and the leading actors, risking their future careers and personal and artistic world judgement in this unconventional film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/25

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Ionela C

Beautiful cinematography, but the plot felt lazy to me. I didn't like the characters at all. Especially Murphy

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/06/24

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Prabudhjeet A

This is another movie by Gasper Noe from the forbidden zone. This feels so realistic. And like his other movie, those transitions from present to past, just different cinematic and sound tango. Nudity, explicit is non simulated but other than that, the story kinda feels.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/22/24

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Everardo C

Por admirable que pueda ser el concepto, Love tiene mucho más ganas de exponer las escenas de sexo que el amor en si

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/04/24

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emre s

Pointless and baseless view on relationships, trying so hard to break ‘taboos'.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Director: Gaspar Noé
Producer: Gaspar Noé, Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Rodrigo Teixeira, Genevieve Lemal
Screenwriter: Gaspar Noé
Distributor: Alchemy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 30, 2015, Limited
Runtime: 2h 14m