Love 3D Blu-ray (2015) [Region B Locked]

[Dragun]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_2816146...annes-atwitter

Gaspar Noe's explicit 'Love' sets Cannes atwitter
By Jill Lawless Associated Press
Posted: 05/21/2015 08:22:23 AM MDT

CANNES, France (AP) — The movies are in love with love, but they're often squeamish about sex.

That's not something that can be said about director Gaspar Noe, whose new film "Love" brings graphic sex — in myriad positions and permutations, in twosomes, threesomes and groups — to the Cannes Film Festival.

A depiction of turbulent youthful relationships, it's extremely explicit — and it's in 3-D. "Love" is full frontal, in-your-face filmmaking.

"I want to make movies out of blood, ***** and tears," said the central male character, an American film student in Paris. That could be Noe's motto, too.

The director wants to smash the convention that keeps graphic eroticism out of mainstream cinema.

"I was making a film about love," Noe told reporters in Cannes Thursday. "It wasn't a film about Swiss banks or Scientology."

"What everyone has in common is their love of making love," he said.

"Love" stars American actor Karl Glusman and European performers Aomi Muyock and Klara Kristin as the members of a turbulent love triangle in Paris. Noe has a cameo as a wig-wearing art gallery owner.

The actors said they were initially uncomfortable with the film's all-baring intimacy, though they came to embrace it.

"The first day shooting, Gaspar decided to start us off with a close-up of my genitals," Glusman said. "I was in the bathroom beforehand looking in the mirror, thinking I should escape to the airport and run back to the United States."

Glusman said he was proud of the finished movie — and so was his mother, "especially because the film is playing in such a prestigious festival."

Noe, an Argentina-born French director, has a history of cinematic provocations. His 2002 film "Irreversible" contained a scene so violent that some audience members bolted for the exits. "Enter the Void," which played at Cannes in 2009, was a hallucinatory drug odyssey that left some entranced and others baffled.

"Love" offers an eye-catching mix of sex and 3-D, a technology Noe says he used because it was a new challenge.

"There is something childish about 3-D," Noe said. "It's like a game. ... I thought what's the next game I've never played that might be fun?"

"Love" was — unsurprisingly — one of the most anticipated films at Cannes, where it is playing as a special out-of-competition screening.

Yet some reviewers found it disappointingly limp. The Guardian newspaper called it "50 shades of vanilla."

The Hollywood Reporter said that if you strip out the sex, the film is "a wistful, some might say sappy story about heartbreak, made with impressive cinematic elan but somewhat shallow emotional depth."

Whatever the critics say, sex will sell "Love" — and also limit its commercial prospects.

The film should be screened uncut in much of Europe, where audiences and censors are tolerant of explicit, nonviolent sex scenes. But it is likely to fall foul of film censors in many countries and will probably have a limited release in the United States.

"The Americans, when it comes to film distribution, they can be very square," Noe said.

"I think this movie could never have been done in America. No way."

[Al_The_Strange]

I'm hoping they release it uncut in the US.

[BleedOrange11]

I'm looking forward to seeing it (most likely on an imported Blu-ray 3D a year from now). Sounds like a unique visual and emotional experience and a welcome change of pace from most studio conversions. Here is the director's note, which I found particularly interesting.

[Dragun]

Why aren't American filmmakers making 3D films like this? Not necessarily films with a lot of sex in them, but something other than the usual line-up of CGI spectacles and animation. Are the independent and lower-budget directors and producers not interested in it?

[Impossible]

Originally Posted by Dragun

Why aren't American filmmakers making 3D films like this? Not necessarily films with a lot of sex in them, but something other than the usual line-up of CGI spectacles and animation. Are the independent and lower-budget directors and producers not interested in it?

Because Americans see 3D as a childish gimmick (cos that's what they've been told it is) and Europeans see it as an art form.

[Robert Furmanek]

Everything old is new again.

From 1973:

[Dubstar]

that Gaspar Noe - what a perv...

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by tigermoth

I just watched a quarter of the trailer, skimmed the preview bar to see it's just one long shot of people making out. Looks like pretentious shock jock junk. America has crazier porn than Japan these days, its commercial entertainment industry is sex charged when it comes to marketing or promotion, so I think its reputation as a prude country is largely unfounded.

Gaspar Noe's Love is listed as a French movie.

Also, it sounds like I need to watch more American porn...

[tigermoth]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Gaspar Noe's Love is listed as a French movie.

Also, it sounds like I need to watch more American porn...

I was talking about this

"I think this movie could never have been done in America. No way."

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by tigermoth

I was talking about this

"I think this movie could never have been done in America. No way."

Oops, I forgot about that bit.

[Todd Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by Impossible

Because Americans see 3D as a childish gimmick (cos that's what they've been told it is) and Europeans see it as an art form.

It applies not just to 3D but to film in general. These days Americans see movies mostly as juvenile entertainment while Europeans still look at film as an art form.

[mredman]

lets hope an uncut 3D version will be out on Blu Ray this year

[Steedeel]

This is only listed as a standard bluray on Amazon Uk. No 3D mentioned.

[punkskins]

There is an English Audio 3d blu released in france in december

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by punkskins

There is an English Audio 3d blu released in france in december

Thanks for that. I may go that route.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Thanks for that. I may go that route.

I won't pre-order the French blu in case it has forced subtitles - there are too many French 3D blu rays already that force French subtitles when the English audio track is selected. But if it's released with optional subtitles then I'll be first in line to buy it...

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by the13thman

I won't pre-order the French blu in case it has forced subtitles - there are too many French 3D blu rays already that force French subtitles when the English audio track is selected. But if it's released with optional subtitles then I'll be first in line to buy it...

Yeah, I will consider that. Was hoping for a German release as they seem to not force subs so much. Might still get a UK release, we shall see.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Yeah, I will consider that. Was hoping for a German release as they seem to not force subs so much. Might still get a UK release, we shall see.

The good news is that it was passed uncut by the BBFC but the bad news is that the Amazon listing still has no mention of 3D...

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by the13thman

The good news is that it was passed uncut by the BBFC but the bad news is that the Amazon listing still has no mention of 3D...

Yes, it is odd isn't it. Well, patience is the game here. I won't buy the regular version.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I won't buy the regular version.

I emailed Artificial Eye to ask them if the UK would get a 3D blu ray release, flagging up of course that I would not buy a 2D only release. I'll post their reply here, if they get back to me...