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.

[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.

[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.

[Mao]

2 different skus, the expensive one (the one I changed my order from) just went down in price.

Literally nothing mentioned as to how they are different!

No post anywhere that I can find...isn't anyone else picking this one up?

[dogofwar]

I got it preordered.

[Mao]

Originally Posted by dogofwar

I got it preordered.

Which one?

[dogofwar]

Originally Posted by Mao

Which one?

I am not sure, there is more than 1? I have the one that was $22.99, looks like it dropped to 19.99, so I'll get a refund.

[DB5]

One of them comes with a DVD when I looked the other week, this was after one of our members posted they got this as a Christmas gift.
This was the review I read on the site.
Hoping to see what other members think of it before I buy.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Love-...135428/#Review

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by Mao

2 different skus, the expensive one (the one I changed my order from) just went down in price.

Literally nothing mentioned as to how they are different!

No post anywhere that I can find...isn't anyone else picking this one up?

Only the expensive one with the list price: $29.99 and now the cheapest @ $19.99, is available for Amazon.com pre-order. The originally cheaper one, List price: $24.99, is "Currently unavailable" for an Amazon.com pre-order.

[FatalSpiderbite]

Since they took off the "multi-format" listing and just left the one that shows 3D BD on it for $20, I said screw it and went ahead and ordered it. Best Buy is showing the same listing for the same price.

[Mao]

Only one sku available now, so I cancelled the other one I had and re-ordered it under the correct listing and at $19.99.

Anyone else's ship yet, though?

Now that I'm past the pre-order date, it'll ship out tomorrow (or whenever it's received from the studio).

[Dubstar]

according to Amazon's product listing the release date has been moved to the 19th of this month.