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It's All About Love

It's All About Love (2004)

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10

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
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An estranged couple are brought back together as they run for their lives in a future world where science as well as emotions have gone haywire in this sci-fi drama from director Thomas Vinterberg. In the year 2021, the world seems to have become a very strange place; an unexplained ailment is causing children to drop dead on the streets of New York, ice storms and floods strike major cities without notice, summer is marked by periodic snowfalls, and a strange hole has appeared in the Ugandan

Sep 27, 2005

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It's like Kubrick with a talent-ectomy.

November 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Viewers who feel like they're not getting the point of the story shouldn't feel bad because the actors also appear befuddled.

November 4, 2004 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger
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Doesn't add up to much.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Newsday
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There's something inherently frustrating about the illogical plot and the breezy vagueness of its message, which seems to be linking the global freezing of a near-future world with the coldness in people's hearts.

October 29, 2004
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Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
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The Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's tries and fails to spin a quasi-futuristic romance into a political allegory.

October 28, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times
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A chilly romantic thriller that certainly doesn't make the point suggested by its title.

November 4, 2004 Full Review
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Quite simply, the film is a bore. A plodding, uninteresting, incoherent mess.

October 30, 2004 Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com
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while watching it you might be hit with the urge to grab the Danish writer-director by the collar and shout 'No, it's all about story!'

October 29, 2004

A stew of silliness that's so ridiculous it's almost entertaining. Almost.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's too bad the plot's pretty preposterous and the moral-heavy mush is just too much to stomach.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: E! Online
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Thomas Vinterberg, one of the founders of Dogme school of filmmaking, has invented a fascinating futuristic world that is ultimately more interesting than the central plot.

October 28, 2004 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
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Audience Reviews for It's All About Love

An interesting and chilling little thriller that has many interesting ideas, some of them work and some of them don't. Most certainly people did not expect to see something like this from director/writer Thomas Vinterberg whose earlier was the Dogme-hit Festen. It's all about love is a interesting mixture. Underneath it's "love conquers all" theme runs a more global-theme of world facing a new ice-age. There are also odd touches of surreal horror in the form of eerie hotel corridors and far out ideas cloning. All these things does not come together even for a one second, but somehow i just don't mind when it comes to this film. Maybe that was the purpose of Vinterberg. Maybe this is meant to be puzzling film about random ideas. A film more about atmosphere and feeling. It will certainly haunt your thoughts when it's over. This is one of those films which i call an interesting failures, and i mean that as a compliment.
May 8, 2010
emilkakko

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In "It's All About Love," John(Joaquin Phoenix) is stopping over in New York on his way to Calgary to meet with his wife Elena(Claire Danes), a five time gold medal winning figure skater, so she can sign divorce papers. Instead, he is met by Arthur(Mark Strong) and George(Harry Ditson) who tell him that she cannot make it due to a scheduled performance in the city, getting him to agree to spend the night in the bargain. Just don't mind the dead guy at the bottom of the escalator. Happens all the time. The following day on the way to the Metropolitan, John persuades Elena to take a detour with him to Williamsburg. Even then, they are still being followed...

While still pretty much a bad movie, it is also almost impossible for me to hate something as warped as "It's All About Love." This might just be a prime example of something that sounded good when proposed but could not be made to work on the screen. The movie's central problem is its romance which is usually what grounds a movie like this but is in fact the heart of the insanity. While Danes and Phoenix look good together, it took me a while to realize their halting speech was a result of their futilely attempting Polish accents. And don't get me started on Sean Penn attempting an Italian accent.(If any of you know where I can get any of that fear of flying medicine, please get in touch with me.) By comparison, the largely British supporting cast fares well. Additionally, with the exception of an invention integral to the plot, the movie provides little insight into what the world may look like in 2021. In any case, I think Africa will have worse problems than people levitating. All I know for sure is the only places in New York City where someone will be able to smoke are Riker's Island and a barge in the East River. Come to think of it, everybody smoking is probably what's causing all of the hearts stopping.
April 15, 2011
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