Noé once again conflates pleasure and death, regarding them as being part of the same process — that every sensation sets in motion the negation of that energy, that each merging carries the germ of dissolution.

| Nov 9, 2023

Love is bound to wind some people up, and it is overlong and a little clunky. But it is also a serious, honest, nakedly earnest piece of film-making.

| Sep 21, 2023

Beds, paintings, hallways, parks, bridges, windows, and cafes slip in and out. What is constant is the characters and their search for an honest connection.

| Original Score: 75/100 | Aug 22, 2021

...this artsy little film has just enough style and substance to make it stand out.

| Nov 16, 2020

Handsome, young and generally good-looking Karl Glusman and Aomi Muyock have limited interpretive skills, suggesting that Gaspar Noah was only interested in jerking himself off. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 14, 2020

A film that despite its title is hard to truly fall for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Love will be misconstrued by many as a transgressive cinematic experience but, in his own pioneering way, Noé is reaching for an honest and pure reflection of young, sexually-untethered love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Noé also indulges his penchant for the tracking shot, and I am reminded these marvels of camerawork and logistics are as much commentaries on time as they are on space.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

An exercise in navel-gazing, and worse.

| Aug 29, 2018

So why did the master of 21st-century transgressive French cinema make such a tame and sentimental film? I think it's because he had nowhere else to go after making three really great and extreme films.

| Aug 23, 2018

The key problem with Love is that Noe is so self-indulgent this time around, there is little room to emotionally connect with the characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2017

This film is, indeed, absolutely moronic.

| Nov 18, 2017

Love makes you long for old-fashioned metaphors of trains rushing into tunnels. Instead, Noe gives us real, hard-core sex that goes on and on. And in 3D too. It's gruelling and untitillating.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2017

That philosophical freedom is what gives his earlier films value, and the lack of it is what makes Love, with its adherence to worn-out binaries, a disappointment.

| Sep 21, 2017

I've seen more eroticism in far less graphic films.

| Aug 14, 2017

The film can boast one thing: having the most idiotic and moronic dialogue in cinema history. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 2, 2016

It's too bad that the film's performance outside the bedroom is so unconvincing: the acting is dodgy, the storytelling is limp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2016

This 3D sex movie is much more banal both visually and narratively than you'd expect.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2016

Although masterfully acted by its three main actors, the only new offering in this film responds to the natural need of Noe to cause a shock in the audience. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 9, 2016

Karl Glusman has a future in Hollywood.

| Mar 4, 2016