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The Loveless

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In the 1950s, a rich Southerner falls in love with a biker who's on his way to the Daytona racetracks.
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Geoff Andrew Time Out 06/24/2006
At times the perversely slow beat of each scene can irritate, but that's a reasonable price for the film's super-saturated atmosphere. Go to Full Review Janet Maslin New York Times 05/14/2005
1.5/5
Its evocation of tough-guy glamour is ridiculously stilted. And it regards the past with absolutely no perspective or wit. Go to Full Review Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Oct 14
3/4
... curious about underbelly imagery—and the psychic pull such things can have on us.  Go to Full Review Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) 02/13/2024
It’s sleazy and stylish and filled with so much mid-century eye candy (especially for people who love diners). Go to Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 02/27/2021
2/4
Filmmakers Bigelow and Montgomery, working from their own screenplay, deliver a meandering, uneventful drama that grows less and less interesting as it progresses... Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 07/20/2019
1.5/4
An acceptable turn by Willem Dafoe and nice photography by Doyle Smith are the only assets to this inert drama. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Harvey K @Harvey658 Oct 27 I haven't seen it so why do you care 😘 See more CodyZamboni Z Feb 9 Movie has no plot, It's all style, With non stop 50's music, The 50's vibe and tough guy dialogue make it watchable. See more david c 01/12/2021 Watch on Criterion 8.5/10 See more 11/22/2020 The Wild Ones it ain't. See more 02/07/2020 It's a throwback to gang and biker flicks from the 50s. Dafoe is pretty solid here and I like the nihilism, but it's not as memorable as I was hoping for. See more 11/02/2016 Kathryn Bigelow's film debut, conceived of and co-directed with fellow Columbia student Monty Montgomery, a future producer for David Lynch who plays the cowboy in "Mulholland Dr.". Willem Dafoe (in his film debut) stars as the leader of a bike gang travelling through the south to get to a stock car race. One of the bikes breaks down in a small town and the locals clash with the bikers. This sounds like an exploitation film, but it's more of an art film that bathes in the exploitation cool of the biker image (a bit like Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising"). In a quite literal sense, nothing happens for a lot of the film as people stare at each other meaningfully. Nonetheless, I found it mesmerizing and it is vaguely reminiscent of a Lynch film with all of the weirdness distracted. Rockabilly musician Robert Gordon co-stars as a fellow biker and provides most of the score. See more Read all reviews
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Kathryn Bigelow

Director

Monty Montgomery

Director

J. Don Ferguson

Tarver

Willem Dafoe

Vance

Robert Gordon

Davis

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The Loveless

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Movie Info

Synopsis In the 1950s, a rich Southerner falls in love with a biker who's on his way to the Daytona racetracks.
Director
Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Production Co
Pioneer Films
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 5, 2017
Runtime
1h 24m
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