Love
Written and directed by Gaspar Noé
France, 2015
On the one hand, it’d be easy (and tempting) to discuss Love, the new film from Gaspar Noé, solely through the lens of the movie’s sex. There’s certainly a lot of it, and it’s explicit, with unsimulated sex scenes making up a significant portion of the film’s two hour running time.
But to only discuss the sex would mean occluding the ostensible aims of the film, which are manifold, in spite of the sexualized imagery in the film’s promotional materials and their suggestion that Love really is a mere act of provocation. What little narrative there is tells the story of the love triangle between Murphy (Karl Glusman), Electra (Aomi Muyock), and Omi (Klara Kristin), and Murphy’s determination to find Electra after her mother (Isabelle Nicou) informs him of her disappearance. As a result of the news,...
Written and directed by Gaspar Noé
France, 2015
On the one hand, it’d be easy (and tempting) to discuss Love, the new film from Gaspar Noé, solely through the lens of the movie’s sex. There’s certainly a lot of it, and it’s explicit, with unsimulated sex scenes making up a significant portion of the film’s two hour running time.
But to only discuss the sex would mean occluding the ostensible aims of the film, which are manifold, in spite of the sexualized imagery in the film’s promotional materials and their suggestion that Love really is a mere act of provocation. What little narrative there is tells the story of the love triangle between Murphy (Karl Glusman), Electra (Aomi Muyock), and Omi (Klara Kristin), and Murphy’s determination to find Electra after her mother (Isabelle Nicou) informs him of her disappearance. As a result of the news,...
- 10/11/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
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