Review of Love

Love (II) (2015)
9/10
Magic lantern of love and sex
26 February 2019
A boy wakes up with his wife and son and arrives the phone call of the mother of the ex-girlfriend, Elettra, whose tracks have been lost.A journey through erotic scenes with different angles of lights of different colors from different light sources and with different shades : excellent and innovative direction of photography of Benoit Debie that emphasizes the direction of Gaspar Noè with a psychedelic and delicate music. A jerky and jump cut editing takes the viewer into a magic lantern of love and sex, like the cinema dreamed of by the protagonist that reflects the fundamentals of the cinema of Gaspar Noè. In the first meeting, before unruliness, Murphy and Elettra speak of love as a vital and luminous essence that leads to madness. They promise to protect each other but fall into the abyss of drugs and betrayals. Murphy even when Elettra has disappeared, he imagines her with him and begs God to want to return to their first night. Unlike "Enter the void" it is a psychedelic journey not after death but in a vital past whose memory brings alive a dead present. This film is not a minor tragedy of Euripides' Elettra. It is not a minor tragedy to meet up with a woman who does not love and to live memories of love from the past.
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