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I Love Your Work (2005)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:7

Rotten:24

Average Rating:5/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, sexuality, some drug content and violent images.

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 4, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: I Love Your Work is a dark psychological drama about the disintegration of Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) a movie star who is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and... I Love Your Work is a dark psychological drama about the disintegration of Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) a movie star who is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and addicted to romantic fantasies about idealistic love and his once simple life. With his celebrity marriage to the beautiful actress Mia (Franka Potente) already strained by jealousy and frustration after only a year together, Gray Evans is looking for escape. An avid photographer, his voyeuristic nature leads him to a local video store, where a chance encounter with a the video clerk's wife Jane (Marisa Coughlan) leads to a dangerous obsession over what he imagines to be an ideal love. Gray falls further over the edge, as his conceptions of love and reality are further blurred by the similarities between Jane and his ex-girlfriend Shana (Christina Ricci) to the point where obsession becomes delusion. Gray's life is further complicated by the realities of his own celebrity, an obsessive fan (Jason Lee) and the need for him to create his public persona as a successful man with a successful marriage. Profession, obsession, and delusion twist together beyond repair when Gray pulls the video clerk (Joshua Jackson), an ambitious screenwriter, into his world by offering to make a movie with him. Their relationship succeeds in bringing him closer to Jane but takes away any last hold on reality, as his fantasy leads to destruction. The layered narrative swings around on itself, taking us on a journey through love, madness and paranoia all the while holding on to a darkly comic view of its own absurd world of crazy Russian bodyguards, (Jared Harris) , loyal assistants (Judy Greer), playboy producers (Vince Vaughn) and true celebrity (Elvis Costello). --© ThinkFilm [More]

Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson

Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Elvis Costello

Director: Adam Goldberg

Director: Adam Goldberg
Studio: ThinkFilm

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It's an intriguing mish-mash, a meta-textual stew that Goldberg, unfortunately, paints with a big, thick brush and then underlines with fat charcoal pencils.

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

So many questions are raised from both sides of the celebrity fence that the film could only have been made by someone as on-the-edge of stardom as [Goldberg].

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
09/18/07
Christopher Campbell
Christopher Campbell
Cinematical

It's too busy trying to be clever that it forgets to give us anything that's actually interesting.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/23/06
David Cornelius
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com

a pointless stew

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/06
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com

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12/18/05
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12/06/05
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12/06/05
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12/06/05
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What is so dreadful about unearned fame and undeserved riches that warrants this faux-Antonioni despair?

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
12/02/05
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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At last, Adam Goldberg has given us his 8 1/2. It's an ambitious rumination on fame, reality, love, loss and regret that falls so far short, he should have called it 2 1/8.

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12/02/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.

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12/02/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Directed by the young actor Adam Goldberg, "I Love Your Work is an attempt to say something interesting about modern celebrity.

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12/01/05
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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I Love Your Work gets the dissonance of the celebrity lifestyle to a T. But the self-reflexive strategy of Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart is too brainy by half.

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12/01/05
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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When Ricci's dreamgirl, finally fed up with Gray's insanity, chastises him with "You're obvious," it's a sentiment also applicable to the film itself.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
12/01/05
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

An edgeless one man show by Ribisi that acts like being insane.

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12/01/05
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

I Love Your Work promises with its very title to be self-conscious, self-deprecating, self-glorifying, and self-mockingly witty.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
11/29/05
Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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A jumbled parabola of self-deceptions, head trips and feints -- colorful and stimulating but not completely satisfying.

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11/17/05
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine

A crisp impressionistic look at stardom while pointing out the allure of being common. Very strong in direction, script and acting, but struggles to finish.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
11/05/05
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

Goldberg takes his message really seriously, abandoning a satirical edge early on, as if he were the first person to ever discover that celebrity is hollow.

Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
11/05/05
Dan Fienberg
Dan Fienberg
Zap2it.com

Maybe the point is to be bewildered. That would be fine had the film created any resonant power. Instead, we're merely bemused.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
11/04/05
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
Reel.com
 
 
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