About Love
Directed byAnna Melikyan
Produced byAnna Melikyan
Written byAnna Melikyan,
Andrey Migachev
Starring
  • Kristina Isaykina
Music byDmitriy Emelyanov
CinematographyFedor Lyass
Edited byMikhail Igonin
Magnum
Distributed byANT!PODE
10 December 2015 (Russia)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

About Love (Russian: Про любовь, romanized: Pro lyubov) is a 2015 Russian romantic comedy. It was written by Anna Melikyan and Andrey Migachev directed by Melikyan. It won the Main Prize and the Prize of Film Distributors Jury at the Kinotavr film festival.[1] It also was awarded at the Golden Eagle Awards as the Best Feature Film.[2] A sequel was released in 2017.[3][4]

Plot[edit]

The audience gathered at the 'Strelka' to listen to the open lecture 'About love'. The female lecturer combines scientific interpretations of the biological essence of the organism's processes with high feelings about which poems and music are written. The lecture is accompanied by experiments and experiments, which participants become participants themselves. In parallel, there are branches to a series of short stories, somehow connected with love.

A police raid in the club, where members of the anime movement gather for free communication. Among the detainees are Himea and Taito, who are six months in a relationship, but have never seen each other without images. Real names (Lena Grachyova and Igor Petrov) give rise to young people to meet in the traditional sense, but this undertaking is failing. Relationships are established only after the return of young lovers in bright anime-images. A single police officer took advantage of the recommendation for a suitable image, which won recognition marks already at the first visit to the club.

A large businessman collects employees in order to announce a crisis in the economy and dismiss the entire team. Office manager Liza is in limbo, because now there was nobody to make coffee. However, the outstanding virtues of Lisa do not give rest to her leader and he openly offers the girl full content in exchange for satisfying his male desires. Liza is overwhelmed by doubts about the proposal that has been received and there are no rest in the relationship with her boyfriend Grisha, who is unemployed for the third month and practically does not break away from computer tans. Liza decides to accept the offer of the businessman, and in the evening of the same day he hears the offer of the hand and heart from his Grisha.

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Representatives of different nations come to Moscow for the festival of Russian culture. Among the participants of the festival is a Japanese named Miyako. Among its main purposes is the search for a Russian husband. To do this, she appoints through a dating site a series of visits, each of the candidates associating with musical notes. The man who gave Miyako a matryoshka, who turns out to be an ordinary collector of sex with foreigners who has a wife and children, receives a choice and an invitation to his hotel room. In frustrated feelings, Miyako knocks at the door of a neighboring room, where another festival participant lives - a Japanese guy from her home town. He is the only one with whom you can discuss the Russian soul and Russian culture. After talking all night and performing the song 'Gop-Stop' for the fidelity to the guitar, they find each other.

Boris - a public figure who advocates the demolition of monuments that disfigure the face of the city. Therefore, after each hobby on the next gray wall appears image of his chosen one. For the image of a new picture, his wife finds him, who followed him through the Instagram. Under the cover of the night, she tries to destroy the drawing and runs into her rival, whose image has just been destroyed. Girls get acquainted, spend a bright night in the city, after which they return home together, where their beloved artist sleeps. Sounds like a proposal to live together.

The heroine of the final story is the lecturer herself of the course about love, which through the dating site appoints a sexual meeting with a stranger, who turns out to be her former, and now wealthy man, who made a proposal to his young lady the day before. At the same time he has a persistent unwillingness to marry and to his ex, he applies for a paid consultation. As a result of the analysis it turns out that the young girl in the course put all the available arsenal of privorotov and even made a doll of voodoo. On requests to remove the love spell of the lecturer refuses and, taking the promised fee, leaves. On the street he meets artist Boris, for whom, apparently, becomes a new object of inspiration.

Cast[edit]

  • Renata Litvinova as lecturer[5]
  • Kristina Isaykina as sleeping girl
  • Mikhail Efremov as groom
  • Mariya Shalayeva as Lena Grachyova (Himea)
  • Vasiliy Raksha as Igor Petrov (Taito)
  • Ravshana Kurkova as Olya, a police officer
  • Keisuke Shibasaki as Yoshi, Japanese in Moscow
  • Miyako Shimamura as Miyako, Japanese in Moscow
  • Yuri Kolokolnikov as familiar Miyako (note Re)
  • Yuliya Snigir as Liza, office manager
  • Aleksey Filimonov as Grisha
  • Vladimir Mashkov as Viktor Borisovich, businessman
  • Aleksandra Bortich as Sasha
  • Mariya Danilyuk as Mila
  • Yevgeny Tsyganov as Boris
  • Maksim Lagashkin as policeman 1
  • Aleksandr Robak as policeman 2
  • Alexei Makarov as familiar Miyako (note Mi)
  • Sergey Muravyov as familiar Miyako (note La)
  • Nikita Ost as familiar Miyako (note Sol)
  • Nikolay Orlovskiy as familiar Miyako (note Do)

References[edit]

  1. ^'26th Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival'. Kinotavr.
  2. ^'Лауреаты премии «Золотой Орел» за 2015 год'. Golden Eagle Award.
  3. ^'В продолжении фильма Анны Меликян сыграет Джон Малкович'. Ria Novosti.
  4. ^'Джон Малкович прочитает лекцию в продолжении фильма Анны Меликян 'Про любовь''. Russian News Agency TASS.
  5. ^Yaroslav Zabaluyev (2015-12-08). 'Бабочки в животе отпали сразу'. Gazeta.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-31.

External links[edit]

  • About Love on IMDb
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Love
Directed byGaspar Noé
Produced byVincent Maraval
Written byGaspar Noé
Starring
  • Klara Kristin
Music by
CinematographyBenoît Debie
Edited by
  • Gaspar Noé
  • Denis Bedlow
  • Les Cinémas De La Zone[1]
  • Rectangle Productions
  • RT Pictures
Distributed byWild Bunch
  • 20 May 2015 (Cannes)
  • 15 July 2015 (France)
135 minutes[2][3]
Country
  • France
  • Belgium
LanguageEnglish[2]
Budget€2.55 million[1]
($2.9 million)
Box office$860,896[4]

Love is a 2015 eroticdramaart film[5] written and directed by Gaspar Noé.[6] The film marked Noé's fourth directorial venture after a gap of five years. It had its premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and was released in 3D.

  • 3Production

Plot[edit]

Murphy is an American cinema school student, living in Paris. He had a French girlfriend, called Electra, whom he dated for two years. One day, Murphy and Electra met and had a no-strings-attached threesome with another woman, a young blonde Danish teenager named Omi, as a way to add some excitement to their love life. But later, Murphy had sex with Omi behind Electra's back, as a result of which Omi became pregnant. This unplanned pregnancy ended the relationship between Murphy and Electra on a horrible note, and it forced Murphy to marry Omi.

On a rainy January morning, Electra's mother, Nora, phones Murphy at his small Paris apartment where he lives with Omi and their 18-month-old son to ask him if he's heard from the young woman, because she hasn't for three months, and given her daughter's suicidal tendencies, she is really worried. For the rest of this day, Murphy recalls his past two years with Electra in a series of fragmented, nonlinear flashbacks; how they first met in Paris, their quick hookup, and their lives over the next two years which is filled with drug abuse, rough sex and tender moments.

Cast[edit]

  • Karl Glusman as Murphy
  • Aomi Muyock as Electra
  • Klara Kristin as Omi
  • Ugo Fox as Gaspar (the baby)
  • Juan Saavedra as Julio
  • Aron Pages (aka Gaspar Noé) as Noé
  • Isabelle Nicou as Nora
  • Vincent Maraval as Castel
  • Deborah Revy as Paula
  • Stella Rocha as Mama
  • Xamira Zuloaga as Lucile
  • Benoît Debie as Yuyo
  • Omaima S. as Victoire

Production[edit]

Casting[edit]

Love is the screen debut of the two main actresses of the film, Muyock and Kristin.[7] Noé met them in a club. He found Karl Glusman for the role of Murphy through a mutual friend.[8]

Budgeting[edit]

The budget of the film was around €2.6 million.[1]Principal photography took place in Paris.[6]

Filming[edit]

In a pre-release interview with Marfa Journal, Gaspar implied that the film will have an explicitly sexual feel: 'will give guys a hard-on and make girls cry'.[9] The sex scenes were unsimulated and most were not choreographed.[10] Premiere pro effects presets. There was barely a script and Noé would set up different real-life meetings with the actors.

Release[edit]

The week before its debut at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the film's U.S. distribution rights were acquired by Alchemy.[11][12] It was selected to be screened in the Vanguard section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[13]The film also screened in Indian film festival The International Film Festival of Kerala held in Thiruvananthapuram in the world cinema category.[14]

Reception[edit]

The film received mixed reviews, with 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, an average rating of 4.9/10, sampled from 85 reviews. The websites consensus states: '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.'[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100 based on reviews from 27 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.[16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcLemercier, Fabien (27 April 2015). 'Enfant terrible Gaspar Noé is back with Love'. Cineuropa. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  2. ^ ab'Love [2D] (18)'. British Board of Film Classification. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  3. ^'Gaspar Noé's LOVE: first official cast & crew list'. Le temps detruit tout. 9 May 2015. Archived from the original on 10 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  4. ^'Love (2015) - International Box Office Results'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  5. ^Neuman, Jules (6 November 2015). 'Review: Noe's 'Love' Has Sex, 3D, and Little Else'. The Movie Blog. Retrieved 22 February 2018. Love, Gaspar Noe’s sexy sex filled art house adventure
  6. ^ abPete Hammond (21 May 2015). 'Gaspar Noe's 3D Porn Movie 'Love' Lands In Cannes: 'This Could Never Have Been Made In America''. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  7. ^Webb, Beth (20 May 2015). 'Revealed: the 3D sex odyssey set to scandalise Cannes'. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  8. ^Keijser, Marjolein. ''Love' Press Conference, Movie Review (Cannes)'. GrungeCake. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  9. ^Jagernauth, Kevin. 'Gaspar Noe's 3D 'Love' And More Added To Cannes Film Festival Lineup'. The Playlist. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  10. ^Smith, Nigel. 'Cannes: Gaspar Noé on Shooting Sex in 'Love' and Why He Loves His Bad Reviews'. Indiewire. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  11. ^'Complement to the Official Selection'. Cannes Film Festival. 23 April 2015. Archived from the original on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  12. ^Smith, Nigel M (17 May 2015). 'Cannes: Gaspar Noe's 3D Sex Odyssey 'LOVE' Goes to Alchemy'. Indiewire. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  13. ^'Toronto Film Festival Adds 60+ Titles'. IndieWire. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  14. ^'Love'. Manoramaonline.com.
  15. ^'Love (2015)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  16. ^'Love'. Metacritic. Retrieved 2 November 2015.

External links[edit]

  • Love on IMDb
  • Love at Box Office Mojo
  • Love at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Love at Metacritic
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