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THOMAS VINTERBERG'S It's All About Love takes place in the near future and tells the story of two lovers fighting for their love and ultimately for their lives in a world out of balance. It is the classic love story with elements of Hitchockian suspense. John (Joaquin Phoenix) and the world famous Ice Skater (Claire Danes) have a cosmopolitan marriage and have lived apart for a number of years. John in Poland, Elena mostly in New York. Time has made the distance between them grow, and eventually John goes to see Elena in New York to get a divorce. But as John arrives in New York he realises that unexpected and inexplicable things are going on around Elena. The people he knew as friends, might not be friends after all. The love he thought had died, bursts into flames again. And it becomes up John to save Elena from her destiny. If he can.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This movie from Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has radically polarised audiences and critics, with art house audiences rhapsodising about its "nightmarish beauty" and Dogma95 fans poking fun at its pretensions. It's been called a 'sci-fi romance', which might lead you to imagine some kind of soft porn starring Spock and Captain Kirk. Not so! It centres on two Polish emigrees in New York in 2021: John (Joaquin Phoenix) is flying to New York to get his estranged wife, ice-skating superstar Elena (Claire Danes), to sign the divorce papers, their relationship having buckled under the strain of "calendars written in different languages". But step by step, shards of a different reality splinter the surface of the plot: the news is filled with reports of lonely Manhattaners dying suddenly of weak hearts on the streets and in the subways. Snow starts to fall in July. And yes, Ugandans have started to fly. This is a futuristic and highly melancholic vision with a message, a comment for contemporary times, about being in thrall to technology, consumerism, commercialism and celebrity, and what is lost in the process. The earthier essentials - Vinterberg seems to want to say (in fact, he sometimes drives it home rather too explicitly) - are becoming buried under blankets of snow.
It'd be easy to mock this film (enough people have done that in newspaper columns and on message boards). But, if you're open to it, this is a beautiful and beautifully different film. There are the ice-skating scenes where four Claire Danes gracefully take to the ice, the authenticity of Joaquin Phoenix's acting, and the sweeping elegies of Zbigniew Preisner's original score. The accents may be a little shaky and there might be what Variety magazine tactfully called "significant deficiencies on the level of storytelling". But this is an ambitious and rewarding film - part thriller, part fairytale - and it's a story worth telling. (3.5 stars)
Extras include trailers and interviews with Phoenix, Danes, Vinterberg and co-scriptwriter Mogens Rukov.
It'd be easy to mock this film (enough people have done that in newspaper columns and on message boards). But, if you're open to it, this is a beautiful and beautifully different film. There are the ice-skating scenes where four Claire Danes gracefully take to the ice, the authenticity of Joaquin Phoenix's acting, and the sweeping elegies of Zbigniew Preisner's original score. The accents may be a little shaky and there might be what Variety magazine tactfully called "significant deficiencies on the level of storytelling". But this is an ambitious and rewarding film - part thriller, part fairytale - and it's a story worth telling. (3.5 stars)
Extras include trailers and interviews with Phoenix, Danes, Vinterberg and co-scriptwriter Mogens Rukov.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This film is like those modern art paintings of an upside down toilet seat or a dogs bowl with a poached egg in it and everyone standing around scratching their heads as they try to fathom the meaning.Its ridiculous scenes of global freezing as anologies to cold hearts and Sean Penn talking on a phone in a plane, oh dear. Also it must have been sponsored by Imperial Tabacco as everyone smokes their heads off throughout the film. It's all about thin air.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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How I do love my movies and I am very forgiving i think when directors and producers try to do something a little different. But try as hard as i might i could not deal with how pretencious and art house this movie was. Obviously the plot and the dialogue were trying to be sybolic but sadly it could never rise above the most appalling narrative and i found it tiresome, irritating and desperately silly. Lots of great reviews too. Thought I was onto a winner, especially with the cast etc. I would be embarrassed if i had made this film. The only good thing I can say is I still like the idea of people experimenting but it does not always work and this is a case in point and even the nice camera work was not enough the make it worthy of more than one star. Still love Phoenix as an actor though and he s entittled to a dud every now and then.
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Watch it and weep!!!
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