You must consider the budget of this film and the fact most of the players are not actors and never performed in front of a camera before. This is what makes this film so amazing I think. Yes the story line is a bit weak, and we never get to know who the players really are in depth. This film is shot really well with a much higher quality look and feel for its $80K budget. Now what is it really? An Art film? A high budget Porn flick? To be honest i'm not really sure myself what slot this film fits in. I think it was the writer/directors full intention to blur the line between the two. The sex in this film is artfully filmed in low light unlike most main stream porn films, and not quite as graphic but graphic enough to give it at least an X rating nothing sexual is simulated here. It is really worth taking a look at this film if just to watch the first time players do such a good job before the cameras both acting and having sex. The other point I would like to make is the players are not your common buff porno types but real looking every day people that add to this films more realistic look and voyeuristic feel of this culture.

Reportedly, this movie fleshes out the plot begun in the 2010 short film also entitled "I Want Your Love" by the same director. It centres on a going-away party for Jesse (Jesse Metzger). Jesse will be leaving his friends in Frisco and returning to the American Midwest. However, this story turned out to be about nothing of note really. There was a bunch of shallow, thirty-something grown men who were still behaving like teenagers. They were talking like silly nelly queens of the 1980s era, with their outrageously campy, sissified banter, pointless potty-mouth dialogue, and clueless lives. American sitcoms is what it reminded me of, the outdated, melodramatic caricatures and stereotypes of people and overblown clichés. Jesse is full of Angst and doesn't know what to do with himself. What am I going to do, I don't know, Oh woe is me, and so on. This was laughable, coming from a man of his age. Maybe that was the point of this movie? It was a comedy? Mr. Matthews did a better job with the 2010 short film forerunner, a snapshot of the lives of two men who up to that time had enjoyed a long platonic friendship without strings. That one had humour, drama and sex too, yet also a more meaningful story. To me, anyway.

Young man needing to leave the city for home. 30-something/late 20-something life angst - where am I going, what am I doing? Old relationships resurfacing. All of that had great potential for some solid story-telling. This effort certainly had some decent actors. Decent production values as well.So WHY did this story get told? It was very difficult to connect to any of the characters, with the possible exception of the older artist who is a friend of our departing lead character. Don't misunderstand me - I wanted very much to like everyone in the film - but it was hard to find any reason to relate with them, or even figure out what they were contributing to the story (again, with the exception of the older artist.) Baffled. That's what I'm left with at the end of this film. The sex in the film was for the most part equally disconnected - it was never clear WHY we needed to see these sex scenes, with the possible exception of the first.Wanted to like this film. Watched it beginning to end. Don't know why it was made.

I first caught sight of this film in Time Out magazine... where it got good reviews. I was intrigued that Peccadillo Pictures, famous for LGBT film, had teamed up with Naked Sword, a pornography company to produce it.I'm always reluctant to buy gay film... the majority of the time they bore me and depend on sex and six packs to maintain the viewers interest. 'I Want Your Love' was a surprisingly perceptive take on gay life in San Fransisco. The sex was natural and the films part improvisation made it feel like a realistic view into the characters lives. The film made no apology for its approach to explicit gay sex, but interestingly its association with Naked Sword seemed to be kept fairly low key on the film's cover. It was obvious that the film wanted to be taken seriously.However, despite the film trying to deliver it failed to maintain my interest. The characters aren't that interesting to watch and their lives are fairly mundane. It affirms my thoughts about films that contain explicit sex. Sex generally replaces more subtle, interesting and intelligent portrayals of emotion that help us to connect with a character. Therefore sex, unless used well, acts as more of a distraction from what the film is actually about.If you're looking for serious gay cinema learn from some of the most successful gay films ever made and avoid explicit content.