Actually like this movie and ended up watching it twice. It's strange and contorted. I've thought about it philosophically overall many times. It's much deeper than the surface relationship of the characters.

"It's All About Love" is full of good intentions and promising surreal moments that are never fully realized in an entertaining way. Worth the viewing if only for Anthony Dod Mantle's brilliant camerawork that finds the compositions swaying left and right, thus creating a permanent state of unease.

It is possible that "its All About Love" portrays a future world where everything is so fake that it goes beyond shallow to people intentionally being created as frauds to perpetuate the lies and the individuals are so brainwashed and drugged as to not even know that they are disposable fakes. They don't realize that they are all insane in one big fraud perpetuating machine of a world that they cannot perceive the world as it really is. The movie says that, even so, Love can still exist even if no one is sure what or who they are loving. In the end, the lover's do not know where they are going or why, but die together trying to get there together. I do not believe that even the news shows truth, 2 min of freshwater freeze everywhere, people flying without wanting to in Uganda, weather unrelated to the seasons, no one seems to know what day it is. With a drugged, fake, insane existence, what do we have left for ourselves, but some agreement between 2 people that they have love, even if they have nothing left, not even life.

I'm trying to pretend this never happened, I wouldn't want a misstep as big as this to ruin my love for Thomas Vinterberg's films, which are nothing like this one by the way. In a world were people die on the street for some unexplained heart condition and no one does anything about it, a man (Joaquin Phoenix) with a strange accent visits his wife (Claire Danes) to get her to sign divorce papers, but they seem to still love each other and so they play like little kids and he watches her and her clones ice-skate. Meanwhile, Sean Penn is on a plane blabbering about love (also in a strange accent) and has no interaction with any other characters. He's just writing a letter on a plane that is about to crash. Thomas Vinterberg's films aren't really known for their technical aspects, but for their emotional aspects. I couldn't feel anything at all during the whole movie, there really wasn't anything good in it. I really loved "Dear Wendy", which is one of his lesser known works and thought this could be a good film, I was wrong. I actually hadn't seen a bad film of his, they're either great films (Festen, The Hunt), fun and original (Dear Wendy), or at least worth a watch (Submarine). Stay away from this film, watch any other film by Thomas Vinterberg but not this one.

It's more about boredom.

About as poetic a conspiracy theory film can get. It's nevertheless a dreary depiction of life in the near future, although given the corporate greed depicted maybe it will one be viewed as prophetic. There's a number of elements in this film that cause consternation, such as Sean Penn's character that as deep as he is as a narrator, seems unnecessary - as is the strange weather system that offers style over substance.

Slow and quite dull. Didn't make it to the end.

That's two hours of my life I'll never get back. Seriously, don't even think about watching this. You will get sucked into a black hole, trying to comprehend this incomprehensible movie. Is it a sci-fi clone thriller? Is it a romance? Is it a moral drama about global warming? No one knows, not even the director. I hate him for making this movie.

I guess I'm in the minority in liking this movie, too bad it did not too well in the box office, perhaps the timing was wrong.

I don't know why people hate this movie so much. It's extremely entertaining, fascinating, emotional and highly original. Just enjoy it and quit trying to rationalize it. It's an extremely powerful film with brazen images and an ambitious storyline which to me is very successful for what the film was trying to achieve. Please don't be chased away by all the bad reviews that have collectively decided this film is a flop. Don't be afraid to watch it and think that its great because it is.

T.V. you make my heart go weak . . .

(**): [img]http://images.chrc4work.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] I wanted to like this one, but this is one slow and confusing film. Fair at best.

a fucking waste of time.

Confusing and ill conceived,

Hard to believe that I saw a film that rated 14% on the Tomatometer and liked it. What attracted my interest was its Ballardian strangeness; e.g. a cosmic upheaval without conscious or reason and human deterioration in its wake. You would have to be familiar with the literary style of J. G. Ballard (e.g. Crash, The Crystal World, or his short stories) in order to fully appreciate something like this or youâ(TM)ll be left asking what just happened when the credits start to roll. The filmâ(TM)s director, Thomas Vinterber, is one of the founders of Dogme 95, an avant-garde filmmaking movement designed to create that sense of strangeness and in my opinion he pulls it off with some success.

Another masterpiece from Tomas Vinterberg.

I'll watch any movie with Joaquin Phoenix or Sean Penn, so to put them together... I could not resist. Not a bad movie, a little creepy, definitely differnet.

the story was too pretentious, it could be a great movie with diferent music, the performance of Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes is great even Sean Penn with no more than 20 seconds in his 4 scenes. In the end has a message which seems to be linking the global freezing of a near-future world with the coldness in people's hearts. The exact problem is that they want a mixture of diferent genres, and you get confused waiting to something to happen and turns slow.

I didn't watch the whole thing at first. In fact, I only walked in the room while it was playing, and caught a brief glimpse of Phoenix and Danes in the snow. My brother was watching it, and I asked him what it was, perplexed that I'd never heard of a movie with both of these actors. "I dunno," he said. "I think it's the end of the world or something." "Really? What's the culprit? Zombies? Nuclear winter?" The last one made sense, given the setting. "I dunno. I don't think anyone cares. They're just trying to get back together or something, before the world ends. Honestly, it kinda sucks." For some reason, the idea of apocolypse as a personal experience stuck with me. Several years later, I decided to track down and watch this film, curious about what this other director had done with an idea that had, by that point, become very personal to me. What I got instead was this steaming pile of crap. This festering monument to the importance of creative feedback in a professional setting, this monolith to inadequacy. F*ck you very much, Vinterberg. Dogme was great, but you're a coattail-riding hack.

It's visually nice, pretty well acted, and unusual. But also sort of pretentious half-sense, so for me ends up as a "meh".