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Death in Love

  • 20082008
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  • 1h 37m
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4.7/10
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Josh Lucas, Betty Gilpin, and Vanessa Kai in Death in Love (2008)
DramaRomanceWar
The devastating legacy of a liaison between a concentration camp inmate and a Nazi doctor reflects on the lives of her sons.The devastating legacy of a liaison between a concentration camp inmate and a Nazi doctor reflects on the lives of her sons.The devastating legacy of a liaison between a concentration camp inmate and a Nazi doctor reflects on the lives of her sons.
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    • Boaz Yakin
    • Boaz Yakin
  • Stars
    • Josh Lucas
    • Jacqueline Bisset
    • Lukas Haas
    • Boaz Yakin
    • Boaz Yakin
  • Stars
    • Josh Lucas
    • Jacqueline Bisset
    • Lukas Haas
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    • 12User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 39Metascore
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    Adam Brody and Josh Lucas in Death in Love (2008)
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    Jacqueline Bisset in Death in Love (2008)
    Jacqueline Bisset in Death in Love (2008)
    Josh Lucas and Betty Gilpin in Death in Love (2008)
    Lukas Haas in Death in Love (2008)
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    Josh Lucas
    Josh Lucas
    • Eldest Son
    Jacqueline Bisset
    Jacqueline Bisset
    • The Mother
    Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas
    • Youngest Son
    Morena Baccarin
    Morena Baccarin
    • Beautiful Woman
    Betty Gilpin
    Betty Gilpin
    • Young Model
    Emma Bell
    Emma Bell
    • Young Girl
    Vanessa Kai
    Vanessa Kai
    • Asian Woman
    Carrington Vilmont
    Carrington Vilmont
    • The Doctor
    Jean Brassard
    Jean Brassard
    • Young Girl's Father
    Adam Brody
    Adam Brody
    • Talent Agent
    Stu Richel
    Stu Richel
    • The Father
    Matt Walton
    Matt Walton
    • Young Father
    Jake Houston
    • Younger Brother
    Nicholas Sireci
    • Young Brother
    Kelli Giddish
    Kelli Giddish
    • Young Mother
    Joe Forbrich
    Joe Forbrich
    • Hotel Manager
    Ron Megown
    • Older Doctor
    • (as Ronald Megown)
    Seth Fisher
    Seth Fisher
    • Hotel Receptionist
      • Boaz Yakin
      • Boaz Yakin
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      None of the characters have names, the screenplay was written specifically for all the characters not to address each other by name.
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      Eldest Son: [voice-over] When you're young, and the woman in your hands is young, you're provoked by the life in her skin, in the muscles under her skin. You can smell life in the sweet perfume of her sweat and her breath, sweet perfume that can make you dizzy. You can sense life in the jittery convulsions of her reactions to every new touch and sensation. And you feel young and alive and jolted by excitement every time you come near her. But the older you get, the older the woman in your hands gets, you grow lulled by the lazy response of her flesh to your touch. Lulled by the numb response of your own nerves to her flesh. By the sluggish torpor of her muscles. The souring perfume of her sweat, of her tears. The souring smell of her old guts belching out air. And it's a curse. Because getting older doesn't make you like being with an old woman any more than you did when you were young. It's worse really, because it lacks even the thrill of novelty of the forbidden. She's just old and she reminds you that you're old, and that your old shell is still taking up space, but that it's life is almost gone. But nothing is worse than being old and holding youth in your hands, even youth that's thrilled by the novelty of you, because you can still smell youth's sweetness, feel the spring of muscles under taut skin, but you know isn't yours. You're not sharing in it, but are feeding off it like some kind of vampire. And you wonder what the point is - what the point of going on living, the point of loving, the point of touching. And all your instincts, your training, have made you too afraid to pull the trigger and end it yourself. To take responsibility that nature's abdicated into your own trembling weakening hands. You stare at those hands, studying them, wondering what they are, why you can't make them do what you want them to do. You stare down at your hands and you realize that even your own hands aren't really yours any more.

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    9/10
    Intense adult drama about repercussions of violence and war
    This movie tells a story held secret by most people who write about the Holocaust, which is the crippling effect of the Survivors' war experiences on their children. Studies have shown that the children of Nazi Holocaust Survivors share many if not all of their parents' psychological issues, particularly depression and post-traumatic stress. This film has the rare courage and honesty to show the bleak emotional damage left by that war, not only on its direct victims but on their children as well. The portrait of the mother is particularly bitterly real -- her seemingly inexplicably outbursts and fits of violence a near-mirror of the unexplained violence she witnessed as a girl; her narcissism and coldness linked to her own abandonment as a girl. Again, a poignant and tragic reality of the psychological landscape of all survivors of war. The actors were superb, the dialogue actually worth LISTENING to. Haas and Lucas put in beautifully nuanced performances and Bisset was outstanding in arguably the best, most emotional performance of her career, and looking more beautiful than ever.

    This is not an easy film. It is most definitely not a family film (there are explicit depictions of sex). It is a disturbing portrait of broken people struggling to find reasons to stay alive. It's pretty great, really.
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    • Oct 28, 2010

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      • July 17, 2009 (United States)
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      • New York, USA
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      • DI Love
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    • 1 hour 37 minutes
      • Color
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