Tag: love

The second poster for Piero Messina's Another End features two lovers sleeping towards each other, almost touching hands, on an 'endless' bed of beige. For me, it evokes the key art for Atom Egoyan's 1997 Canadian masterpiece, The Sweet Hereafter.  The...

It is a solid time-wasting (and futile) exercise looking at couples and making a judgement call if they are ‘right for one another.’ Or to guess if they will ‘last.’ In my family, it is kind of a sport. Well...

If conception and birth are always present themes in Gaspar Noé's cinema, death is equally important for him: “When you write your sentence, you always put a dot at the end. Talking about death is just putting a dot at...

Strange Magic was supposed to be George Lucas’ swansong, his final big budget motion picture —as a producer, mind you, not director— before his inevitable retirement from the movie business. Alas, that didn’t quite happen. Strange Magic was released in...

One of the most legendary writers of all time created the most adventurous fantasized and romanticized novel of all time Ivanhoe. Later in the timeline of movie making, several movies of this story were made, including an Australian cartoon movie...

For the excessively fortunate, love can resemble that of a Meg Ryan / Tom Hanks vehicle. Sadly, more often than not, love more closely resembles the latest Gaspar Noé nightmare, boldly titled, Love. It is a word that yields multiple definitions...

Gaspar Noe's Love is ridiculous, and I'm fairly convinced it knows it. It's a movie about dicks, which are ridiculous objects; and ridiculous people, who happen to be dicks. It's the great cinematic circle-jerk. Your mileage may vary. There is,...

Maverick helmer Gaspar Noe made a particularly sticky splash in Cannes this year with the arrival of his latest effort - the 3D erotic drama Love. Noe has never particularly been one to embrace subtlety in his work so when...

There's still surprisingly little information available for Irreversible and Enter The Void director Gaspar Noe's upcoming Love - a film the director says will "give guys a hard-on and make girls cry" - but with production reportedly under way since...

While they've missed the chance to throw a 'boogaloo' into the title, French sales outfit Wild Bunch are looking to make a big splash in Cannes with the Jonas Akerlund directed / Irvine Welsh script Spring Breakers 2: The Second...