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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Dream, 10 July 2005
This review is from: It's All About Love [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
This film is about what the director feels in his life, how he perceives life through his eyes, as if in a dream. All wrapped up around what he feels is the most important things about life - Love. I didn't know what to think of the film when it started. At midpoint I was feeling like one of the other reviewers here, that it was a car crash, a disaster. I stuck with it, and by the time the film finished, I was overwhelmed. It is a film of impression, emotion, depth, abstraction, dream...but at it's core is what the title says - "It's All About Love"...
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's All Good, 21 July 2004
This review is from: It's All About Love [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
Films generally fall into one of two catergories - predictable and safe, or cutting edge and revolutionary. This is definitely the latter. A visual journey of art-deco influence and Hitchcockian suspense, it provides romance, manipulation, complexity and disorder in one thrilling dose. Claire Danes is luminous in her role of Elena, Joaquin Phoenix is equally striking as her estranged husband and Sean Penn's cameo is simply perfect. Thomas Vintenberg (Director) obviously made a conscious decision to create the antithesis of 'Festen' and it works wonders. It's All About Love is beautifully bizarre, massively intruiging and incredibly resonant. It may not be conventional, but this is a purposeful move and has originality at its heart. This is an absolute must for anybody who loves cinematic genius.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Crazy but good, 6 Aug 2005
This review is from: It's All About Love [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
Ok so I'm not going to pretend I understood this film - so my review may change as I spend more time thinking about it, but it gets under your skin. It reminded me of 'Magnolia' as it blended the surreal with the mundane and set it all in a completely believeable world. The sets are excellent as they give the whole film as dream like quality that adds to the confusion. You don't know what is going on throughout the film, but resign yourself to this and you will free yourself to understand that the only message and truth of the film is that its all about love.
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