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Short Film, Short Review: The Rites of Love and Math

30 November 2010 6:01 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

As much performance art as cinema, Edward Frenkel and Reine Graves short film The Rites of Love and Math is an unabashed hommage to Japanese Playwright and Novelist Yukio Mishima's 1966 film Yûkoku ("Patriotism", aka The Rite of Love and Death.)  Where Mishima's film is shocking, not only for its graphic sex, and even more graphic seppuku (which foreshadowed Mishima's own suicide four years later and made the film an unreleased, rare, cult curio until given its first commercial release by The Criterion Collection in 2008) due to political strife, the 2010 remake changes to focus to math and science.  A mathematician discovers the formula for Love itself, and is beset by the powers that be, possibly to use it as a weapon.  In a last ditch effort to protect his secret, he tattoos it on his own lover before committing his own suicide (proving the pen is, well, about equal to the sword. »

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Getting an Orgasm from Integral Calculus: Trailer for Rites Of Love And Math

11 October 2010 11:43 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Three subjects that are more linked than one might expect, love, passion and mathematics, The Rites of Love and Math is what happens when you combine a Berkeley Math and Physics professor and a French filmmaker (Edward Frenkel and Reine Graves, respectively) who both love Japanese Cinema.  Their beautiful combined effort, a 26 minute short is playing at the 2010 edition of Sitges, and is simply gorgeous looking.  See the trailer below.

 

A film about the beauty of Mathematics, a Mathematician has a secret love affair with a beautiful Japanese girl, Mariko. At midnight, he comes to her place and tells her about his predicament. Having realized that they are seeing each other for the last time, they make love more passionately than ever before. And then the Mathematician tattoos the magic formula on Mariko's body. They both know that this is the last time they are seeing each other. Afterward their »

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