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Title: Love (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Aomi Muyock | ... | Electra | |
| Karl Glusman | ... | Murphy | |
| Klara Kristin | ... | Omi | |
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Ugo Fox | ... | Gaspar |
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Juan Saavedra | ... | Julio |
| Gaspar Noé | ... | Noe (as Aron Pages) | |
| Isabelle Nicou | ... | Nora / Electra's Mother | |
| Benoît Debie | ... | Yuyo | |
| Vincent Maraval | ... | Lieutenant Castel | |
| Déborah Révy | ... | Paula (as Deborah Revy) | |
| Xamira Zuloaga | ... | Lucile | |
| Stella Rocha | ... | Mami | |
| Omaima S. | ... | Victoire | |
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David Bohm | ||
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Richard Blondel | ... | Man Asking Cigarette |
Murphy is an American cinema school student, living in Paris. He had a French girlfriend, called Electra, whom he dated for two years. One day, they met and had a no-strings-attached threesome with another woman, a young blonde Danish teenager named Omi, as a way to add some excitement to their love life. But later, he had sex with her behind Electra's back, as a result of which Omi became pregnant. This unplanned pregnancy ended the relationship between Murphy and Electra on a horrible note, and it forced Murphy to marry Omi. In one morning, Electra's mother, Nora, phones him to ask if he's heard from Electra, because she hasn't heard from her for three months, and given her daughter's suicidal tendencies. For the rest of this day, he recalls his past two years with Electra in a series of fragmented, nonlinear flashbacks; how they first met in Paris, their quick hookup, and their lives over the next two years which is filled with drug abuse, rough sex and tender moments.
As thought provoking and stylish as you'd expect. Kind of like a hybrid of Enter the Void, Nymphomaniac, The Lobster and Weekend. You can feel the love that has gone into this film.
The sex is both beautiful and ugly. It's not porn, more like an aestheticized version of somebody's personal sex tape, but one designed to provoke contemplation more than any other response. To feel any more real it would need to be in the style of a documentary, which would have the effect of distancing you from the characters. I didn't feel like I was experiencing the story directly (as I do with good suspense movies), but I did want things to work out well for the characters. If you judge a movie by how much the pacing and suspense immerses you, you won't enjoy Love. If you can be immersed into a movie's atmosphere and want something to feed your imagination, then you will get a lot from it.
A lot of reviews and comments on IMDb seem to say it is not a thought provoking movie, or that it is pretentious, yet the poster was moved to write about their thoughts on it, so it certainly isn't empty. I found talking about it can result in the conversation going to some very interesting places.
It has earned a place in the history of cinema, and is hopefully a step away from the feelings of shame people feel about sex, a step towards greater freedom in art, culture and cinema.