Love Battles (2013) User Reviews

Ready to rumble

[timlin-4 · 7/10 · 26 April 2015]

A strange take on the theme of a young woman coping with unresolved issues after her father dies, we somehow end up watching her engage in a series of wrestling matches with a man who lives near her father's home. These fights are staged as some kind of therapy, though of course they turn out to be very sexual. To be honest, I was more interested in ogling Sara Forestier than in contemplating the lengthy conversations outlining the whole psychodrama, so I can't really judge how plausible all this is. But she and Thierrée deserve credit for putting in very physical performances, and the director has created an original erotic scenario.

Movies strive towards sophistication, Mes séances de lutte aces in the opposite direction!

[donalupe · 9/10 · 23 December 2021]

Buoyed by bucolic setting and exceptional acting, this rare work of art successfully aspires for primal unsophistication, a journey that only uninhibited filmmakers can undertake. It begins with our characters finding themselves in a conundrum and ends in a euphoric bacchanalian courtship. Thanks to their means that manifest in all sorts of ways: Ethereal, corporeal and empyreal yet vicious, veracious and vivacious!