(185) 6.1 2h 14min 2015 18+. 5.0 out of 5 stars Erotic Movie, also showing love / hate relationship throughout. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2019. Verified Purchase. Enjoyed this movie, not just for the erotic side, you can see. NR, 2 hr 15 min. Movie Times; Details. Drama, Romance. Opened: October 30, 2015. You are back online!

In 'Love,' Murphy essentially relives a past life. He is not however in control of his emotions, so his memories are fragmented, and out of order. He recalls Electra because her mother calls him, giving him a sentimental oasis to cling to in order to escape his life with Omi. Still, in flashbacks, we see how Murphy's relationship with Omi ironically started because of Electra, and how Electra and Murphy's relationship was always a co-dependent one. He, a film student with posters of 'Saló,' and 'Story of O' hanging ostentatiously on his bedroom wall, jealously obsesses over her. But eventually she, an aspiring painter, reveals that she's just as concerned with being protected. They form an unhealthy relationship that expresses itself through violent outbursts, and copious sex scenes that range from genuinely sexy to mechanically frantic. So while Electra accuses Murphy of being a bright young man who doesn't know what love is, she's just as impulsive.

Since Noé ('Enter the Void,' 'Irreversible') wants to steep viewers in Murphy's confused emotions, the experience of watching 'Love' can sometimes be more frustrating than thinking about the meaning of 'Love' while you watch the film. In fact, 'Love' probably only works if you see it as a paradoxically over-determined work of and about sensuality. Noé uses 3-D photography but also never stops reminding viewers that they are outside of the frame, as he directly acknowledges in one scene where an erect penis thrusts directly at the camera before ejaculating CGI semen. You can't watch this movie and ever really forget that you're watching a movie, as is reinforced by the film's elliptically-structured plot, droning soundtrack and periodic mid-scene black-out cuts. That's because Murphy is, like some of Noé's previous blank slate heroes, a character who remembers himself at his most frustratingly vacant.

Murphy thinks he knows it all, but is unfailingly clueless, as we see when he first meets Electra, and blurts out 'What's the meaning of life?' and she quickly responds in kind: 'Love.' Noé's movie is about characters who want to stay nestled in the past, as is evidenced by his frequent use of reddish-brown camera filters, and symmetrical frames-within-camera-frames compositions. 'Love' is about an angry, sulking character who think he wants to make a 'sentimental' romance featuring sex, but is ultimately incapable (and essentially uninterested) of seeing outside of himself. Soundtap streaming audio recorder for mac pro.