It's All About Love

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Movie
German title It's All About Love
Original title It's All About Love
Country of production Denmark
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Thomas Vinterberg
script Mogens Rukov ,
Thomas Vinterberg
production Birgitte Hald
music Nikolaj Egelund ,
Zbigniew Preisner
camera Anthony Dod Mantle
cut Valdís Óskarsdóttir
occupation

It's All About Love is a science fiction film by the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg . It was filmed in 2003 with Joaquín Phoenix , Claire Danes and Sean Penn . The film opened in German cinemas on March 20, 2003.

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At the beginning of the film in 2021, John lands at New York Airport on a layover during an extended trip to have his wife Elena sign divorce papers. However, his wife does not come to the airport as agreed, instead the protagonist is received by two businessmen who ask him to visit his wife at the hotel. John lets himself be persuaded, postpones his onward flight and follows the two men. Already at the airport he notices that dead people are lying around, to whom the living pay no attention, but his companions try to calm him down by saying that this is normal in New York .

In the hotel, the greeting is warm, it is implied that John had close friendships with the staff around his wife, especially with Elena's brother, Michael, he has a close relationship. Elena herself is a master figure skater and main source of money for the management around David. Finally, in the hotel corridor, John briefly meets a supposed doppelganger of his wife. When Elena herself faces her likeness and fears for her life, she turns to John for help and asks him to stay longer. John and Elena finally manage to escape from management for a short time. The two rent an inexpensive hotel for one night, where they sleep together for the first time in a long time and experience snowfall later that night in July. The couple is finally tracked down by the employees who already picked John up from the airport and Elena brought back to management.

John then meets Michael in the hotel from the beginning of the film and learns during a conversation with his brother-in-law that there are three clones of Elena and that original Elena, due to a heart defect, together with John - the divorce papers have still not been signed - a new life under a new identity should begin in a little known place. The clones are said to take on Elena's role as a figure skater to safeguard business interests and investments. With the help of Michael and the loyal colleague Betsy, John and Elena manage to break away. While skating with the clones - a promise made to them by John - the clones, but not the original, fall victim to an assassination attempt and die of gunshot wounds - the mysterious Mr. Morrison, who has emerged in the meantime, has a hand in this.

The couple escapes again with Michael, but Michael freezes to death in a snowy desert, and then John and Elena die in the middle of the cold. The film closes with the words of Marciello, John's brother, who had already commented on the entire film in short overlay from airplanes in various parts of the world. He reports of the increasing coldness and loneliness of people everywhere, although everything should actually revolve around love. The end of the world had already been hinted at, people in Africa flew around unintentionally, one day a year all stagnant water turned to ice and people died of broken hearts. Finally, Marciello reports that his last plane has nowhere to land because the whole world is icy.

Reviews

Manohla Dargis from the New York Times praises the expressive production design, but criticizes the fact that a lot remains unexplained or is simply unnecessary and annoying, and the plot is also stupid. Although some reminds of the works of Wim Wenders , Vinterberg's film lacks seriousness. Todd McCarthy of Variety complains that Vinterberg never takes the audience with him, that the characters are hardly developed and only showed any visible emotion towards the end of the story. The appearance of the film, costumes and camera work are to be commended. Village Voice's Dennis Lim defends the film, which lives up to its title in that it is really all about love; it's a crazy movie.

Awards

The film won three awards from the Danish Robert Festival in 2004 (Anthony Dod Mantle for camera work, Ben van Os and Jette Lehmann for production design and Peter Hjorth for visual special effects).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manohla Dargis : The Limits of Realism and of Absurdity. In: The New York Times. October 29, 2004, accessed August 5, 2010 .
  2. ^ Todd McCarthy: Sundance 2003: It's All About Love. (No longer available online.) In: Variety. January 22, 2003, archived from the original on April 24, 2009 ; accessed on August 5, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  3. ↑ Dennis Lim: Freeze Frame: Stabs of Beauty in a Chilly Romantic Dystopia. In: Village Voice. October 19, 2004, accessed August 5, 2010 .

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