Phonearl
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
ChampDavSlim
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
constanza-nm
By the reviews that I've read on this page and others calling it just porn, I assume the movie had literally just sex. I was surprised to see that the even though the sex scenes are long, it's definitely not the whole movie, neither it feels like porn. The problem relays in the fact that I've seen porn with more content than this. More artistic, better edited. That should give you an idea of what type of film this is. The protagonist is insufferable. I hated him 5 minutes into the film. And we don't get to know the rest of the characters either, in consequence, you don't really care what happens to them. The performances are mediocre. At times it truly feels like an amateur project. The shots get repetitive and boring and the dialogues fall flat. This a good idea, let's show a relationship from a sexual point of view without censoring. I appreciated that but where's the real intimacy, the real feeling. I have no idea. Nymphomaniac did it. I haven't met anyone who has seen that movie and hasn't feel overwhelmed. There's emotion, pain, struggle. The main topic, of course, is different, but I think you get the point. Love is more than what you see here. Actually, love shouldn't be what you see here.
rrogolv
I stumbled upon this movie on Pornhub :) and after the first minute realized what a gem I found! After "Irreversible" I vowed to myself to never watch another Gaspar Noé movie, - graphic violence towards women is not something I enjoy looking at. All the more reason to be surprised at how moving, tender and beautiful this film turned out to be. Why such outrage in the reviews is beyond my understanding, - is the sight of two (or three:) people making love is that offensive? Are these people plan on never having sex? Obviously they never seen any porn, if they calling this movie porn! "Love" is a meditation on physical intimacy, with beautiful cinematography, mesmerizing soundtrack and hypnotic performance by Aomi Muyock, that is certainly worth watching and does not deserve the low rating it has on IMDB. I personally was really touched by the use of Erik Satie's "Gnossiennes" throughout the film, as it's one of my favorite pieces of music, and I always felt there's a flair of understated sensuality about them. Please forgive my grammar errors, English is not my native language.
thermodynamx
And failing miserably.
So, I saw Gaspar Noe's newest film last night. I'm a fan of his work and can see why people question his ability. If you haven't seen it and do not want the film spoiled then stop reading. Anyways, what did I just watch? It was great don't get me wrong, but I feel like there's a fine line between film sex scenes and just straight porn.
joythirstpop
Yeah, the sex is uncomfortable to watch, but the fact that it is shown like it is in this movie is not what you end up walking away with if you became emotionally involved in the plot and the characters - the meaning.It illustrates pretty well how destructive uncontrollable sexual urges can be - something that someone magnifying the mere fact of the porno-ness might miss. It's not glamorizing sex. It may look glamorous to you on film, but then you watch the characters suffer horribly for their decisions, destroy their relationships, and their lives.If anything, this movie really illuminates the lesson of "you don't know what you got till its gone"- you might not realize how much you actually love someone until you've hurt them so much that they never want to see you again, or even drive them to their own destruction, and yours.Good lessons. It's not all about the sex. If you can get past watching people having sex which I'm sure most of the people watching do anyways on the regular, and watch it like there's a message in there somewhere, you might get something out of itOf course the premise at face value sounds like such a sad money grab - but if you've already watched another Noe movie like Enter the Void and are expecting to be moved, there is a similar payoff or take-away