The Truth About Love - or: What you never wanted to know ...
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Truth About Love - or: What you never wanted to know ... |
| Original title | The Truth About Love |
| Country of production | GB |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 91-100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Hay |
| script |
Peter Bloore , William Johnston , Rik Carmichael , John Hay |
| production |
Tracey Adam , Christopher Figg |
| music |
Len Arran , Debbie Wiseman |
| camera | Graham Frake |
| cut | David Martin |
| occupation | |
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The Truth About Love - or: What were you never know ... ( the truth about love ) is a British film comedy from John Hay from the year 2005 . The film ran on television under the title Aus Lust und Liebe . The movie poster at the time asked: “How far would you go to test your husband? How far would you go to keep him? ” Jennifer Love Hewitt has to ask herself these questions in her role. The man who has loved her for a long time is played by Dougray Scott , her husband by Jimi Mistry .
action
The nurse Alice Holbrook is married to the lawyer Sam. Her cynical sister Felicity gives her the idea to test Sam's loyalty. Felicity is characterized by the fact that her relationships are consistently very short-lived. So Alice sends her husband a Valentine's Day card in which she anonymously offers him an intimate meeting. In addition, she reveals in the letter the phone number of the cell phone on which she can be reached. She explains to her sister that Sam has no secrets from her, which Felicity denies. When Alice already thinks Sam won't answer, he calls after all. Sam, who believes he is on the phone with his lover Katya, an eccentric painter whose existence Alice has no idea, has phone sex with his own wife, whom he does not recognize. Sam's lover, on the other hand, reacts irritated when Sam tells her about his assumption.
Archie Gray, a friend of the Holbrooks, who works in the same law firm as Sam and who is secretly in love with Alice, comes closer to Alice, who is very disappointed with Sam. On the other hand, Alice likes her new role as seductress Anonymus, who can still spark her husband's desire. She always makes sure that her encounters remain anonymous, which seems to give Sam an additional kick.
When Sam and Alice have once again arranged a meeting in an apartment where Sam has to blindfold before he enters, and where Alice waits as his dominatrix , she can no longer take it and runs away when he protests that he had never loved his wife and that she was nothing compared to Anonymous. At the entrance to the house she meets Sam's lover Katya, who has secretly followed him and now insults Alice violently because she believes that Alice is another lover of her lover, whom she calls her husband .
Alice is on her nerve and sits down on the sidewalk and weeps bitterly. Ultimately, however, and almost too late, she realizes that there is a man who truly loves her, her good friend Archie. He is on his way to the train station to leave for Japan because he mistakenly assumes that Alice has a lover and his chances are now zero. Alice rushes there and, although the train has already started, can get Archie to leave his compartment to hug her. Alice finally knows that there is a man for whom she is the perfect woman.
production
Production notes, filming
The film was produced by Impact Film & TV, Piccadilly Pictures, Lex Filmed Entertainment, Take 3 Partnership and Take Partnership, distributed by First Look International as well as by Lighthouse Home Entertainment and Starmedia Home Entertainment.
The film was shot between April 10 and May 24, 2004 at the Clifton Suspension Bridge , a chain bridge that is the landmark of Bristol , as well as in Clifton itself, at the Bristol Central Library (building where the courtroom is), on the Bristol Temple Meads station , on the railway station Cardiff Central and at the Guildhall in Bath in the county of Somerset .
Soundtrack
- Somethin 'Stupid by C. Carson Parks sung by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman
- Love Bug by and with Rick Guard
- Every Breath You Take by Sting , sung by Jennifer Love Hewitt and Kate Miles and by The Soho Stiltons
- Massage baby by and with Jonas Persson
- Men Of Harlech (aka Danny Harlow Is A Bender) , traditional way, lecture: The Music Sales Big Boy Choir
- John Brown's Body (aka Danny Harlow Is A Poof) , traditional way, lecture: The Music Sales Big Boy Choir
- Ten In A Bed (aka Roll Over) , traditional way, lecture: The Music Sales Big Boy Choir
- How Does It End by Skin and Len Arran, Lecture: Skin
- Wheels by Norman Petty , lecture: Rick Cardinali
- Non-Stop , Lecture: Nathan Whitey
- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel , Lecture: Ian Dury and The Blockheads
- Porn baby by and with Jonas Persson and Rick Cardinali
- Reggae Baby by and with Jonas Persson and Rick Cardinali
- Beautiful View , Lecture: Shonagh Daly
- I Want To Be Evil (Flirty Mix) by Raymond Taylor and Lester Judson, Lecture: Eartha Kitt
- I'm Too Sexy by Fred Fairbrass and Richard Fairbrass and Rob Manzoli , Lecture: Right Said Fred
- The Truth About Love by Rick Guard and Phil Rice, Lecture: Rick Guard
publication
The comedy film was released on April 21, 2005 in South Korea, in July 2005 in the United Arab Emirates, Thailand and Singapore, in August 2005 in Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman and the Philippines, and in September 2005 in Norway (DVD premiere ), in October 2005 in India, the Netherlands (DVD premiere), the USA (DVD premiere) and Poland, in December 2005 in Hungary, in July 2006 in Portugal, in November 2006 in Spain (DVD premiere) on February 16, 2007 in the UK, January 2008 in Japan (DVD premiere), February 2009 in Sweden (TV premiere) and July 2012 in Serbia (TV premiere). The film was also released in Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Italy (DVD), Romania and Russia.
In Germany, the film was released on October 26, 2005 with a German soundtrack by Starmedia Home Entertainment on DVD. On German television it ran under the title Aus Lust und Liebe .
criticism
David Nusair wrote in Reel Film Reviews that the film was "predictable" and contained "clichés". The “bizarre” plot does not pull the viewer into the film despite the participation of the “handsome” actors like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Dougray Scott.
For Paul Arendt of BBC Home , it is usually a bad sign if a film only hits theaters several years after it was made. Occasionally you get a jewel, but mostly just trash, like now with The Truth About Love . Arendt spoke of a pathetically bad film that was wearily predictable that one would wish to have stayed at home and borrowed Notting Hill . A plus point was that Love Hewitt was as good as always and had a corresponding British accent, while Bristol served as an attractive and relatively unspoiled backdrop.
Monica Meijer from Cinemagazine had a completely different view of the film, who said it was fun and so original that you could imagine testing your partner for yourself. The film contains sympathetic characters and appealing dialogues, especially from Felicity (Kate Miles), who plays a kind of nymphomaniac who only gets involved with married men and is therefore the opposite of her faithful sister Alice. One of the highlights played at the end of the film at the train station, very funny and very well played.
Robert Flaxman from EFilmCritic said the film didn't know what it wanted to be: on the one hand a crazy sex comedy, on the other hand a serious romance. There is also hardly any attempt to develop one of the characters, which makes Alice's choice between her one-dimensional, sloppy husband and the equally one-dimensional loyal best friend both uninteresting and completely simple. With a poorly drawn and hopeless cliché romance and a bizarre puritanical attitude to everything sexual, The Truth About Love is a kind of romantic comedy, which does not meet any of these points.
The only positive thing that was positive about the film, Stuart O'Connor, editor-in-chief of Screenjabber , was that it posed the key question of how in the world can garbage be restored? And why is it called a romantic comedy because that Film is neither romantic nor weird. Any fun or originality would be destroyed by amateur directing, an embarrassing script, and a conspiracy to show Jennifer Love Hewitt's admittedly admirable body in lingerie as often as possible, rather than offer something that was recognizable as entertainment.
The lexicon of international films spoke of a “confusing romantic comedy” that “could not find any new facets in the genre”.
Web links
- The truth about love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Truth About Love at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Truth About Love or: What you never wanted to know ... in the German dubbing file
- The Truth About Love - Or: What you never wanted to know see wunschliste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Truth About Love Fig. Film poster in the IMDb
- ↑ The Truth About Love see filming locations in the IMDb (English)
- ↑ The Truth About Love see Business Data in the IMDb (English)
- ↑ The Truth About Love or: What You Never Wanted to Know ... Fig. DVD case
- ↑ David Nusair: The Truth About Love review at reelfilm.com (English)
- ↑ Paul Arendt: The Truth About Love see bbc.co.uk (English). Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ↑ The Truth About Love (2005) see cinemagazine.nl (Dutch). Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ Robert Flaxman: The Truth About Love see efilmcritic (English). Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ↑ Stuart O'Connor: The Truth About Love see screenjabber.com (English). Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ↑ The Truth About Love - or: What you never wanted to know ... In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 10, 2019 .
