Essa Coisa, o Amor

Título original: Luv

1967
Approved
1 h 33 min

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Jack Lemmon and Elaine May in Essa Coisa, o Amor (1967)

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaMilt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Har... Ler tudoMilt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Harry and Ellen hit it off immediately, but Milton strikes out.Milt, who's having difficulties with his wife, runs into his friend Harry, who's about to kill himself. Milt asks Harry to stay with his wife Ellen while he goes off with his girlfriend. Harry and Ellen hit it off immediately, but Milton strikes out.

Direção
- Clive Donner
Roteiristas
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
Artistas

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5,3/10

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Direção
- Clive Donner
Roteiristas
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
Artistas

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Jack Lemmon

Harry Berlin

Peter Falk

Milt Manville

Elaine May

Ellen Manville

Nina Wayne

Linda

Eddie Mayehoff

D.A. Goodhart

Paul Hartman

Doyle

Severn Darden

Vandergist

Alan DeWitt

Dalrymple

Martin Abrahams

Coney Island attendant
(não creditado)

Don Ames

Restaurant Patron
(não creditado)

James J. Casino

Bar Patron
(não creditado)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Bar Patron
(não creditado)

Terrayne Crawford

Woman in Car
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Daniel Elam

Bar Patron
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Duke Fishman

Bar Patron
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Harrison Ford

Irate Motorist
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Ralph Gambina

Bar Patron
(não creditado)

Joseph Glick

Bar Patron
(não creditado)

Direção
- Clive Donner
Roteiristas
- Elliott Baker
- Murray Schisgal
Elenco e equipe completos
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3planktonrules

Among Lemmon's worst.

I noticed that many reviewers loved "Luv" and many were left cold by it. Place me in the latter group. It's a shame, as the film had several ingredients that SHOULD have made for an excellent film...such as it starring Jack Lemmon, Eileen May and Peter Falk. Yet despite this, it just left me frustrated and wondering how the story could be this dull and unappealing.

The story is in many ways surreal and strange. It begins with Harry (Lemmon) on a bridge...about to jump to his death. However, an old friend (Falk) sees him and instead of getting hysterical, the friend brings him home and introduces him to his wife (May). Why introduce him to the wife? Well, the husband has a mistress he wants to marry....and he wants to set up his wife with a new husband! Unfortunately, ultimately, these new arrangements don't work out at all...and the original husband and wife wish they hadn't divorced in the first place.

The dialog is strange...but not funny strange...just strange. The characters also act oddly...but again...not in a funny way. The story is just odd but in an unsatisfying way....and also, sadly, among the worst performances by Jack Lemmon, an otherwise brilliant actor.

4moonspinner55

Suicide is painful

...and so is "Luv". What might've been a mod, madcap romantic comedy is just an exercise in shouting (you'll never forget that Jack Lemmon plays "Harry"--it's all you hear from the other performers). A suicidal man is brought down from a bridge-railing by an old school friend who has other plans for the guy: fix him up with his unhappy wife so he can marry a fitness enthusiast. The story certainly had satiric possibilities, few of which are realized. One is tempted to put the blame for this mess on Lemmon (who does some uncharacteristically sloppy slapstick here), but Clive Donner's direction should bear the brunt of it--he has no clue how to present this material. Based on the play, "Luv" has bright opening moments but soon sinks into theatrical clichés, the kind that creak and wheeze with age. Worse, it's a visual insult, with tatty color photography that only serves to expose the cheap production. What a shame! Lemmon and Peter Falk (so good together in the earlier "The Great Race") make no music together, and Elaine May struggles for dignity. I struggled through "Luv" and laughed maybe three times. *1/2 from ****

5JLRMovieReviews

A Jack Lemmon Curio with the Talented Elaine May

Jack Lemmon is about to end it all when an old friend he hasn't seen in 15 years saves him, well not really. Peter Falk never really noticed that in this very bizarre film. When Peter comes up with a brilliant idea to set up his wife (who he's leaving) with Jack Lemmon, things start to get a little more interesting. Elaine May and Peter Falk are great in this film, especially Elaine May. I watched this for Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors ever. But here, I never really could get into his character. Jack was his usual funny and quirky self with abrupt seizures. But all in all, I never really felt that much sympathy for his character. Outlandish movies like this either tend to end with a whimper or just don't know how or where to end, and this is no exception. While this is no "Some Like It Hot," this is not the worst film I've ever seen either. The acting of Elaine and Peter are far better than the material. Watch if you like the actors.

4rachelschupick

Corny, but not insufferable

It's weird to watch a movie from the 1960s with 21st century lense. The comedy doesn't flow and at times you're not sure if what your watching is funny or bad writing.

Relaxing the mind a bit and letting go of the 21st century standards of speed we have for comedy, you may find the experience more enjoyable. A few chuckles here and there, even if just for how ludacris it must've been for these two humans to say these lines to each other, or participate in the physical stunts

Also, a good Harrison Ford catch from his early career. (He plays the angry driver in the white convertible that Ellen hits with her car.)

7ilprofessore-1

J.A.P. Nuttiness

Way before Woody Allen laid claim to the same people and the same territory, this 1967 film based on a 1964 play by Murray Schisgal, directed on Broadway by the young Mike Nichols (who had been Elaine May's partner in Chicago) may be the first Hollywood film ever to feature a group of highly neurotic, overly articulate, and -although never named as such apparently middle-class Jewish urban characters. Unfortunately, as funny and satirical as the film is at times, opening it up to the real world with naturalistic settings did not help support its weak story structure. When push comes to shove, the movie is no more than a series of sketches, the sort that Nichols & May did so brilliantly on records and stage. Irishman Jack Lemmon seems miscast; he does his best, however, to sustain the frenetic shtick, mugging outrageously at times. On the plus side, the brilliant and then beautiful Elaine May (future director and writer of many a film flop) may be the greatest crazy Jewish American Princess ever portrayed on film. Try as she might, Woody Allen's second wife, Louise Lasser, understudy in the original Broadway production, could never quite match Elaine May when it came to sheer J. A. P. nuttiness.

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Harrison Ford makes a brief appearance as the driver who punches Harry after Ellen backs into his car.

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Milt Manville: Look, El, now I've never told you this before; but I couldn't start school until I was 8 years old because I didn't have a pair of shoes to wear. Now, lucky for me, the kid downstairs got hit by an ice-cream truck and I got his shoes. But even then they were too tight for my feet. I couldn't walk. I was put into a special class for disabled children.
Harry Berlin: Do you think that was bad? Whenever it snowed, my grandparents locked me out of the house. Skinny kid with a torn jacket, a paper bag for a hat, knocking and yelling, "Let me in, please let me in..."
Milt Manville: Paradise! What did they used to feed you for breakfast?
Harry Berlin: Glass, filled with two thirds water and one third milk.
Milt Manville: Coffee grounds. That's what I got.
Harry Berlin: With sugar.
Milt Manville: Not on your life. I ate it straight, like oatmeal.
Harry Berlin: Your old man ever beat you?
Milt Manville: He did.
Harry Berlin: With what?
Milt Manville: A strap.
Harry Berlin: [pointing to himself] A chain.
Ellen Manville: [she chuckles] You were both lucky and you didn't know it.
Harry Berlin: Lucky? Did anybody ever call you a "bastard"?
Ellen Manville: A relative or a stranger?
Harry Berlin: Relative.
Milt Manville: I never even had a birthday party.
Harry Berlin: I never even knew when my birthday was till I got a notice from my Draft Board.
Milt Manville: What kind of presents did they used to give you for Christmas?
Ellen Manville: [she scoffs] Presents?
Harry Berlin: When I was 5 years old my grandparents bought a dozen donuts every Christmas till I was 17. I got a donut.