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It's all about love

Original title: It's All About Love
  • 2003
  • R
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
10K
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Claire Danes and Joaquin Phoenix in It's all about love (2003)
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Two lovers attempt to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.Two lovers attempt to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.Two lovers attempt to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.

  • Director
    • Thomas Vinterberg
  • Writers
    • Mogens Rukov
    • Thomas Vinterberg
  • Stars
    • Joaquin Phoenix
    • Claire Danes
    • Sean Penn
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    10K
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    • Director
      • Thomas Vinterberg
    • Writers
      • Mogens Rukov
      • Thomas Vinterberg
    • Stars
      • Joaquin Phoenix
      • Claire Danes
      • Sean Penn
    • 116User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
    • 32Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    • John
    Claire Danes
    Claire Danes
    • Elena
    Sean Penn
    Sean Penn
    • Marciello
    Douglas Henshall
    Douglas Henshall
    • Michael
    Alun Armstrong
    Alun Armstrong
    • David
    Margo Martindale
    Margo Martindale
    • Betsy
    Mark Strong
    Mark Strong
    • Arthur
    Geoffrey Hutchings
    Geoffrey Hutchings
    • Mr. Morrison
    Harry Ditson
    Harry Ditson
    • George
    Thomas Bo Larsen
    Thomas Bo Larsen
    • Night Porter
    Teddy Kempner
    Teddy Kempner
    • Brooklyn Receptionist
    Indra Ové
    Indra Ové
    • Production Assistant
    • (as Indra Ove)
    Georgi Staykov
    • Bookish Interpreter
    • (as Giorgi Staykov)
    Anna Wallander
    • Young Interpreter
    Mariann Rudberg
    • Old Interpreter
    Michael Simpson
    • Master of Cerimonies
    • (as Michael Philip Simpson)
    Alexander Sapone
    • Boy in Street
    Giulia Melis
    • Italian Girl in Street
    • Director
      • Thomas Vinterberg
    • Writers
      • Mogens Rukov
      • Thomas Vinterberg
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    User reviews116

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    4barryagilbert

    A vapid meditation on simplistic love.

    I loved "The Celebration" and was very disappointed when I saw this at Sundance. In brief, this suffers from the same delusion as "Eyes Wide Shut": namely that implication = meaning. There is implied tension, implied sexuality and an implied conspiracy, none of which are delved into, and a barrage of imagery that is neither satisfactorily abstract nor clearly explicated. Joaquin Phoenix is too passive to be much of a lead and Claire Danes, while beautiful, lacks depth. The picture IS gorgeous, and kudos to the DP and design team.
    Matthew-sawtell

    It's All about What???

    Well

    Where do you begin on such a film? First thing to point out, if you wish to save yourself £3.50, then read this first.

    Several words can sum up this film. 'Pointless' 'Weird' 'Strange' the list would continue until I run out of negative expressions.

    It all starts with a character called John, (Joaquin Phoenix) who flies to New York to meet up with his wife called Elena (Claire Danes) . The purpose of the meeting is nothing more then to get divorce papers signed. However he is met by two of his wife's entourage, and he is taken back to her hotel, and is forced to endure a night at the ice skating.

    His wife is a world famous figure skater, last time I looked this sport was as popular as synchronized swimming, however for the purposes of the film, it's as popular as the world cup, and she as a sports personality has world wide fame and recognition that David Beckam would be envious off.

    Anyway, long story short, she is well past her sale by date in the sport, and her team are replacing her with Elena Clones. Sounds stupid, and is. The reason for this is because without her, they are all unemployed and unemployable (just as they should be as a collective group of actors)

    John is clueless to the entire situation until he meets one of the clones wielding a knife at him, and it's only when Elena's Brother called Michael, grows a spine and tells John of the Teams plans.

    As for Sean Penn who plays Johns Brother in the film, well I am still trying to understand his part in the overall story, in my opinion Sean Penn is one of the worst actors I have ever seen, and this justified my opinion further.

    In conclusion, Elena does not die at the hands of her management team, rather she opts to die with her husband in the middle of nowhere in freezing conditions, so, actually opting for a much more painful prolonged death, (her clones were all shot), her Husband John dies as well, again, freezing to death, her brother Michael also dies in the forest, but he dies alone. We can only assume and hope that Sean Penn's character dies in the plane he is a passenger off, with him ending any possible chance of a sequel.

    For those who express such a film as ART, or creative brilliance, you need to lay of the alcohol.
    Delly

    A Lars Von Trier "film negre"?

    A "roman negre" is a French novel written by a famous author such as Octave Mirbeau who wants -- perhaps because it's too personal, or else because it's not self-important enough to satisfy the rabid litterateurs -- to say something that he wouldn't say under his own name. And believe me, it's more than possible that von Trier didn't want his own cognomen on a script that includes the line "Here with more on the flying Ugandan phenomenon..."

    Twice.

    Thomas Vinterberg, from what I've seen of him, is joined at the hip to Von Trier as his prettier, younger apprentice. He won his spurs by trudging through a Dogme project on the oh-so-serious theme of incest that critics loved, only to be blown out of the water by his mentor with his own devious Dogme contribution, The Idiots. And he has recently directed his third film, Dear Wendy, whose screenplay is actually credited to von Trier alone -- can you imagine a more thankless job?

    But after seeing It's All About Love in the theater last year, and again on Sundance Channel last night, it's equally clear that, influenced though he might be by his own personal Dr. Frankenstein, Vinterberg's second film is ultimately the only one that is entirely HIS. No matter how much the deus ex machina ( deus ex machine gun? ) character of Morrison reminds you of the similar hit-man/God figure from Dogville, despite the prevalence of a gnostic philosophy that von Trier only recently picked up for his "American trilogy," and even despite lines like "I don't want to be a dog" uttered ironically by people who have at that very moment thrown away their souls and become exploitative, desperate, vicious monsters a la the citizens of Nicole Kidman's least favorite mining community, what It's All About Love proves is that there are places Vinterberg can go that von Trier can't, namely, into the enchanted realm of the CARAXIAN -- the beautifully naive and youthfully idealistic, despite the prevalent doom and despair. Like Sean Penn says at the end, it really is all about love, even if that love now is just a memory.

    People don't seem to get this movie, don't seem to get much of anything anymore, and every single baffled, acidic review on this page makes me jealous, because it proves that Vinterberg's "report on the state of the world" is extremely vital. This is a movie, my friends, that "not getting" means you're dead and blind, so it's quite imperative that you watch again. There are many ways to prepare yourself. Perhaps the easiest would be to watch its sister films of 2004, Winterbottom's Code 46 and Kar-Wai's 2046 ( the similar titles are no coincidence ), as well as some more mainstream gnostic films about the costs of our profound spiritual crisis like Enduring Love, Dogville, The Hulk, or Spielberg's twin contributions, The Terminal and A.I. Or, if you really want to suck all the pith out of the thing, you could could immerse yourself in Monteverdi and Purcell operas, plays by Shakespeare and Maeterlinck and perhaps some stories by Villiers de l'Isle Adam. Meanwhile, the more lazy among you you could treat yourself to the Cliff's Notes version, in this case, the grotesque unreeling saga of Tom Cruise and his robot bride, which this movie foreshadows in a way that is thoroughly creepy ( indeed, IAAL suggests that these relationships lived for the sake of the public eye with its attendant cash value will be the template for all future human interaction. )

    Sadly, all that preparation will be futile if you don't want, with all your heart, for your nightmare to end. Without some curiosity about your relation to your creator, some skepticism regarding technology and science, and the will to overcome the fear of death that eventually drives most people into the perverse soul-destroying transactions this movie illustrates with such timeless romantic flair, It's All About Love will be gobbledygook to you. And so will your life, by the way.
    Freedomisanillusion

    And the Oscar for this year's strangest film goes to...

    'It's All About Love' is a true oddity. It feels almost like someone recorded all the strange ideas that came into their head for a week, and chose a common topic, i.e. 'Love', and wrote a screenplay from their notes.

    But that's not to say it's a bad movie.

    In truth, I quite enjoyed it, although I came out of it feeling like I'd woken up from a dream, or possibly a nightmare.

    It's quite unsettling.

    The plot is both incredibly simple and incredibly complex:

    John (Joaquin Phoenix) goes to New York to get a divorce from his famous figure skating wife, Elena (Claire Danes). While he's there, he notices that Elena seems to be in the middle of a vast conspiracy, and together they try to escape it, rediscovering their love at the same time.

    The film is set in the near future, although it doesn't really need to be. I like the future in this film, because it's not radically different (except for flying Africans...go figure) but feels like twenty odd years from now. In the near future, people who are lonely or suffer a great loss will often drop dead. And the people of the near future merely walk over their bodies.

    John and Elena are Polish, although they don't need to be. It adds certain poignancy, two foreigners not quite in place in a world that keeps putting them out of place.

    Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes, while both very good (I think...it's hard to tell in a film as strange as this) could possibly have used some accent work. At times they speak with no accent at all, and it seems to distract.

    On that note, I would like to point out how brilliant Claire Danes is. Ever since I saw Brokedown Palace, I have been astounded by her acting ability (although, that said, she doesn't do heart-wrenching crying very well). I won't spoil it, but under the circumstances of what happens to her character(s), she's incredible.

    Also thrown into the mix is Sean Penn playing John's brother. I honestly couldn't see why he was in the movie, except maybe to oversee all the weather changes (think a far more subtle, low budget Day After Tomorrow with more meaning. For instance, it snows in New York in July, and there are days when all the fresh water freezes) I'm not saying it's a bad point, but another end that wasn't loose, but still needed tightening.

    As I mentioned, the plot is incredibly complex. It twists a fair bit, until it seems to cut all things loose and start a new movie some twenty minutes before the ending. Still another way this movie unsettles me.

    Visually, the film is stunning. It looks like a far more mainstream film than it obviously is. And while the film is beautiful, it still feels hard to watch, like there's something dreaded under the gloss.

    If this reads as an ambiguous review, that's probably a good thing. I like this movie, quite a lot. But I also dislike it. It's easy to see why the DVD cost me $10.

    I also like the fact that I own this movie before America even get an official release date. As an Australian, always open to release dates getting pushed back by three months, or movies being on DVD in America for about a year before we even get a theatrical release, this gives me a strange sense of superiority.

    An incredibly strange movie and most certainly not everyone's cup of tea, I'll have to be careful of who I recommend this movie to. But see it yourself, as it's a movie that deserves an audience, just a very select one.

    7/10
    halsall69

    Underrated

    I went to see this film just a week ago as it has just been given a limited release in the U.K. I didn't have high hopes for the film due to the poor reviews. However when I saw it I was pleasently surprised by the great cinematography and the quirky storyline. This is by far one of the best films I have seen so far this year. 8/10

    criminally underrated

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    • Trivia
      Thomas Vinterberg took two and a half years to write the script.
    • Goofs
      Elena faints. When John picks her up, she lifts her knees before his hands slide under them.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Marciello: John, are you there? You're probably out there somewhere sleeping. Sleep well John.

    • Connections
      Featured in It's All About Love... og Thomas Vinterberg (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Una furtiva lagrima
      Written by Gaetano Donizetti

      Performed by Izzy

      From the opera "L'elisir d'amore" (The Elixir of Love), 1832

      Copyright Universal Music Publishing

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    • Release date
      • July 2, 2003 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Denmark
      • France
      • United States
      • Japan
      • Sweden
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
      • Netherlands
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • It's All About Love
    • Filming locations
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Nimbus Film
      • CoBo Fonds
      • DR TV-Drama
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    • Budget
      • DKK 86,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $6,140
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,582
      • Oct 31, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $478,996
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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