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Eros (2005)

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Reviews Counted:66

Fresh:23

Rotten:43

Average Rating:4.9/10

Consensus: Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Romance

Theatrical Release:Apr 8, 2005 Limited

Box Office: $53,666

Synopsis: Three award-winning directors take a look at eroticism, sex, and love in different ways in the international omnibus film EROS. Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS)... Three award-winning directors take a look at eroticism, sex, and love in different ways in the international omnibus film EROS. Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS) contributes "The Hand," a moving, poignant tale of a simple tailor, Zhang (Chang Chen), who becomes obsessed with an elegant, demanding, beautiful call girl, Ms. Hua (Gong Li), as he makes special dresses for her, knowing that she will wear them while being with other men. As her life dovetails, Zhang is faced with the choice of remaining her friend or leaving her to drown in the gutter. In "Equilibrium," writer-director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC, ERIN BROCKOVICH) tells a black-and-white noir farce starring Robert Downey Jr. as an ad man relating his erotic dream to a psychiatrist (Alan Arkin) who appears to be more interested in peeping out his office window. And in "The Dangerous Thread of Things," Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni (BLOWUP, L'AVVENTURA) relates the story of fast-living rich people who toy with sex and romance as if they're games, as a husband (Christopher Buchholz) and wife (Regina Nemni) both become curious about a woman (Luisa Ranieri) who rides her horse across the beach. EROS is a tribute to Antonioni--he was 89 years old when he began filming his segment in 2001--who helped choose Wong and Soderbergh because both have pointed to him as a major influence. [More]

Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin

Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin, Massimo Ranieri, Ele Keats, Regina Nemni, Christopher Buchholz, Luisa Ranieri

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Tonino Guerra, Kar-Wai Wong, Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Stephane Tchal Gadjieff, Jacques Bar, Domenico Procacci, Raphael Berdugo, Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Gregory Jacobs, Kar-Wai Wong
Studio: Warner Independent

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Feb 7, 2006

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  • Eros
  • A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality by three directors from three distinct cultures. From a relationship unrequited for many years between a high end call girl and her tailor to a menage-a-trois between a husband and wife on the Tuscan seaside, to an exploration of an erotic dream by a psychiatrist and his patient. Prepare to explore the deepest realms of human desire.
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    The rain still drips like tears in Wong's faintly lit alleyways, the paint in his narrow corridors continues to peel, the floral-print curtains in his '60s drawing rooms still billow in the breeze--but the colors have faded...

    Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
    08/21/09
    Rob Nelson
    Rob Nelson
    City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

    The chatter in the lobby, I predict, will be from people wondering how and when [Antonioni] flipped his lid... The film is a failure, no matter how grandiose its title or the names above it.

    Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
    06/05/08
    Robert Davis
    Robert Davis
    Paste Magazine
    N/R

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    Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
    08/16/07
    Trevor Johnston
    Trevor Johnston
    Time Out New York

    I guess one out of three ain't bad.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    07/31/07
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    06/15/07
    Anton Bitel
    Anton Bitel
    Channel 4 Film

    If there's a point to any of this, it's the supposedly therapeutic revelation that major female mystery lies in what you can discover by rifling through her purse.

    Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
    05/28/07
    Prairie Miller
    Prairie Miller
    Long Island Press

    Anthologies by their inherent nature tend to be highly uneven. And Eros proves no exception, with the individual sections ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.

    Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
    10/10/06
    Tom Dawson
    Tom Dawson
    BBC

    An excruciating festival of middlebrow good taste.

    Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
    09/23/06
    Peter Bradshaw
    Peter Bradshaw
    Guardian [UK]

    An intriguing but ultimately frustrating triptych.

    Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
    08/17/06
    Rich Cline
    Rich Cline
    Shadows on the Wall

    All three short films were minor works.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    07/21/06
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Feels like an experiment that you'd be happy to catch during a film festival ... right before you nodded off for a solid 90-minute catnap.

    Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
    03/29/06
    Scott Weinberg
    Scott Weinberg
    DVD Clinic

    Eros demeure une expérience réussie en son genre, même si aucun des cinéastes invités ne réussit réellement à repousser les limites de son propre cinéma

    Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
    02/09/06
    Jean-François Vandeuren
    Jean-François Vandeuren
    Panorama

    Three smart filmmakers produce three whiffs on the theme of love.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    02/09/06
    Joshua Rothkopf
    Joshua Rothkopf
    Time Out

    confoundingly horrendous

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    01/17/06
    Jay Antani
    Jay Antani
    Filmcritic.com

    The auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment for the European Red Shoe Diaries.

    Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
    09/26/05
    Scott Tobias
    Scott Tobias
    AV Club

    A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.

    Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
    07/08/05
    Shawn Levy
    Shawn Levy
    Oregonian

    It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    07/08/05
    Lisa Kennedy
    Lisa Kennedy
    Denver Post
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    N/R

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    Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
    07/05/05
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
    07/05/05
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
    TheMovieReport.com

    Eros aims high. But aside from Wong Kar-Wai's effectively compressed erotic musings, it falls short.

    Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
    06/15/05
    Zach Hines
    Zach Hines
    PopMatters
     
     
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