Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
- Released: 2015-07-06
- Runtime: 134 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Stars: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin, Ugo Fox, Juan Saavedra, Gaspar Noé, Isabelle Nicou, Benoît Debie, Vincent Maraval, Déborah Révy, Xamira Zuloaga, Stella Rocha, Omaima S., Nikita Bellucci, Angell Summers, Ian Scott, Anna Polina, Kelly Pix
- Director: Gaspar Noé
Comments
- Platypuschow - 5 March 2024
Love: "Art?" No, no it really isn't.
Plot
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Cast
Not familiar with the cast but brought to you by Gaspar Noé, the man who gave us Climax (2018) and the highly controversial Irreversible (2002), he clearly has a "Style". Notable mention regarding Aomi Muyock who was just, dreadful.
Verdict
I've just done my top 10 French movies and have to say it's not a great selection, me and French cinema have never been on the same page especially when it's come to horror movies.
Love is an award winning "Art" film and wow do I use that term loosely. Evidence that if the right people call it art then enough people will consider it as such. Love is an adult film, let's not kid ourselves and I don't mean as in it's aimed at adults I mean this is adult entertainment, the stuff that would be in the backroom of a video store behind a curtain. Get me?
The opening scene was a drawn out emotionally dead sequence which was graphic and set the tone but immediately made me question what I was watching.
The movie is advertised as a a drama/romance. Let me be clear this has a lot of drama, but none of it is engaging. You'll hate the characters and be frustrated that there are more "Adult" scenes that dramatic content. And romance? Don't make me laugh, there's nothing romantic about this film. It focuses on a highly toxic relationship that should never have been.
This is not a movie, it's pornography.
Rants
Let me be clear, I'm no prude and have no problem with sex and nudity in films in the slightest. However that's all this is, I don't understand why they dressed this up as a legitimate film or why it got the praise it did. There is a very fine line between this and the average Jenna Jameson movie so why is that smut and this is art?
Breakdown
Barely a movie Aomi Muyock was awful This is not art. - Xstal - 25 September 2022
Sex and Drugs, No Rock 'n Roll...
Unsurprisingly an in your face, confrontational and quite challenging piece of cinema from one of the world's most provocative and outrageous auteurs, a man who usually delivers something to get your teeth into and reflect upon, with a stories worth exploring further. On this occasion however, the story of Murphy, Electra and Omi has about as much value as a stain on a soiled bedsheet or a discarded prophylactic, both of which this film has in abundance. The sex scenes aside, real or contrived or both, there really is nothing more than boy meets girl, limerance abounds, three in a bed, playing away, break up and fill with dread, and some blended in narcotics to amplify the highs and the lows, fade to grey - although there are no highs and grey makes it sound more colourful than it actually is.
