I was hesitant to watch this movie because of all the explicit sex scenes everyone seemed to complain about in their reviews on IMDb (I always read reviews before watching a movie). There were so many mixed reviews that I decided to give it a shot. I watched it with my fiancé and fast forwarded through most of the sex scenes. I'm not a prude. I just don't find it necessary to watch a 10 minute sex scene. Anyway, this movie was so GOOD! I cried a couple of times. I felt myself feeling for the two main characters, Electra and Murphy. Their relationship was in fact toxic, but I never throughout the whole film doubted their love for one another. It's usually the toxic relationships in where your heart breaks the most. Murphy's and Electra's relationship started off strong, but it soon turned toxic when they started exploring sex with other people together. This movie goes to show that the bedroom is just for two people. Bringing others in will only strain the relationship with jealousy and insecurities. I felt Electra's pain when he confessed to her that he had gotten his neighbor (whom they had recently engaged in a threesome with) pregnant. I also felt Jasper's pain when he goes looks for her at the club and tells her "I belong to you! I wanna have a baby with you! I love you!" I felt for him, but I felt for her even more. Seeing him in the present in where he's with the woman whom he got pregnant was so sad and depressing. He gained weight, was unhappy, and was not in love with the woman he ended up with. It's almost as if he resented her for Electra leaving him. Two years later, and he never stopped loving Electra. She went to sh*t soon after breaking up with Jasper. Although she hated him, she still loved him. There's a fine line between love and hate. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is 'indifference.' Her hate/love for him led her to give up on life. In the end, he finds out she overdosed and died. They don't actually say it, but based on his reaction when he gets off the phone with her mom, it's safe to assume that's what happened. It's blatantly clear. He then goes into his bathtub, sits down, and holds his son how he once held Electra - where he once held Electra. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It doesn't have a happy ending, but it has a realistic one. When the movie was over, I hugged my fiancé tightly, and I promised him to never ever hurt him. I asked him to promise me the same. This movie was very good but very sad.

Overly ambitious project about a millennial love arc that ends in heartbreak, but what are the lessons learned? Murphy (Karl Glusman) is an open-minded film student in Paris who meets Elektra (Aomi Muyock), and the two embrace their high sex drives with giddyness. However, after the relationship embraces polyamory and swingers culture, only one of the two is emotionally stable enough to handle it.The film is directed really well by Noé, who by now should know well enough how to make it all super claustrophobic and uncomfortable for the viewer. The cinematography is good but relies too heavily on saturation but it's never really an issue. Nonlinear storytelling is clear, concise, and there's some really neat editing at parts. The story does drag often, and the film overall could've cut out 10-15 minutes of filler.The real issue with "Love" is the lack of chemistry between Murphy and Elektra -- we just don't see it, pretty much ever. The writing is there, but the actors just cannot grasp it. This is largely because -- are you ready? -- they aren't actors; Noé met both Glusman and Muyock in a club one night and asked them to star. It's clear that he wanted to achieve the most organic and natural relationship dynamic on-screen by not using "real actors" -- but in what is supposed to be an emotionally charged film, that just doesn't work.In fact, in a sort of disturbingly surreal manner, the very same issues that the film is trying to highlight in millennial relationships (emotional maturity and boundaries over sex) seem to show up in the unsimulated sex scenes between Glusman and Muyock. Glusman constantly falls out of character, allowing his own sexual desire to ruin the scene and any emotional impact Noé was looking for. Muyock seems bored and uninterested -- and who could blame her? -- likely due to Glusman's obvious zeal about getting paid to fuck her. I'm not sure he entirely understood the fact he was in an art film, and in remaining ignorant, he ends up verifying Noé's entire thesis: young adults, especially men, get lost in the idea of sexual nirvana over the thing that truly matters: love.The second half of the film lifts the veil on Murphy's narcissistic and emotionally abusive behavior in the relationship, and tragically, Glusman is a good actor when portraying an unstable douchebag (and Muyock is phenomenal when screaming at him).The film finishes the same place it starts, seeming to depict Murphy at rock-bottom in a horrible and accidental family dynamic: a fitting bookend to a relationship that was destroyed not by too much sex, but his own fear of it. The ending is eerie and powerful, and hints at the generational ripples that will be felt for decades because of his own actions. It's a great story, and sort of well-acted, but it ends up merely tripping up on its own interpretation of reality instead of offering us anything particularly new.

Porn disguised as an artsy love story. 95% of the movie was sex and the rest was going to clubs, drinking, and drugs. Did these people even have jobs? Do yourself a favor and watch a porno. At least they have plots.

Gaspar Noe at his best. I love this film, watched it twice. It takes a lot to make me watch a film twice especially a new released. It's an arty and very well made film about love. It's not always rainbows and butterflies. What I love about Gaspar Noe is he takes risks and experiment with the films. Most of his films are controversial then people start liking it as no one likes a change in the beginning and I love creativity. This film has a very simple plot, simply made with simple acting if you want to watch it expecting some unrealistic cheesy rom com Hollywood commercial film because name of the film is LOVE then this is not for you. Reading people reviews here, repetition of the word "PORN" because of unsimulated sex scenes and a lot of sex scenes. There is a good story to the film and the sex scenes compliments with it. I have always been in favour of unsimulated sex as it is one of natural act which every adult goes through. It's about time when people should watch sex scenes without feeling uncomfortable and without the idea that every time you watch unsimulated sex scene you have to play with yourself. I just find it ridiculous, it is just a natural act. Get over it and fix your brain. If people feel uncomfortable with that do some research before you go and watch a film if unsimulated sex makes you feel uncomfortable why did you go on the first place to watch it?A great film !! must watch !!