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It's All About Love [DVD] [2003]
enlarge	Director: Thomas Vinterberg Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall, Alun Armstrong Studio: 4dvd Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.07 as of 22/11/2009 16:44 GMT details You Save: £13.92 (87%) New (13) Used (6) from £2.07 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 24113 Format: PAL Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 100 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 6867449006796 ASIN: B0015N2YOQ Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Release Date: May 12, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Watch it and weep!!! November 2, 2008 Flocon de neige (France) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This film is simply a beut. Joaquin is at his best (little did we know we were on such borrowed time with this splendid actor!!!).Danes is great. It's a love story asking to be seen by those of us who are on this side of quirky!! Truly a lovely film, and a soundtrack to hunt for! Love is in the air March 29, 2009 cathy earnshaw (Berlin, Germany) This movie from Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has radically polarised audiences and critics, with art house audiences rhapsodising about its "nightmarish beauty" and Dogma95 fans poking fun at its pretensions. It's been called a 'sci-fi romance', which might lead you to imagine some kind of soft porn starring Spock and Captain Kirk. Not so! It centres on two Polish emigrees in New York in 2021: John (Joaquin Phoenix) is flying to New York to get his estranged wife, ice-skating superstar Elena (Claire Danes), to sign the divorce papers, their relationship having buckled under the strain of "calendars written in different languages". But step by step, shards of a different reality splinter the surface of the plot: the news is filled with reports of lonely Manhattaners dying suddenly of weak hearts on the streets and in the subways. Snow starts to fall in July. And yes, Ugandans have started to fly. This is a futuristic and highly melancholic vision with a message, a comment for contemporary times, about being in thrall to technology, consumerism, commercialism and celebrity, and what is lost in the process. The earthier essentials - Vinterberg seems to want to say (in fact, he sometimes drives it home rather too explicitly) - are becoming buried under blankets of snow. br / br /It'd be easy to mock this film (enough people have done that in newspaper columns and on message boards). But, if you're open to it, this is a beautiful and beautifully different film. There are the ice-skating scenes where four Claire Danes gracefully take to the ice, the authenticity of Joaquin Phoenix's acting, and the sweeping elegies of Zbigniew Preisner's original score. The accents may be a little shaky and there might be what Variety magazine tactfully called "significant deficiencies on the level of storytelling". But this is an ambitious and rewarding film - part thriller, part fairytale - and it's a story worth telling. (3.5 stars) br / br /Extras include trailers and interviews with Phoenix, Danes, Vinterberg and co-scriptwriter Mogens Rukov. A moving love story - maybe - but what is the rest about??? June 4, 2009 Peter M (London United Kingdom) An infuriating film. I watched the special features because I had spent 100 minutes on it - ever hoping until the last that explanations would be forthcoming - and had drawn a blank. In his commentary, the director Vinterberg admits he deliberately took out the explanations for the bizarre things that happen - to the extent of completely reshooting the entire movie. What was he thinking?? He also says it is a love story. Well, the actors try hard but it's difficult to appreciate a "natural" love story when the director is also attempting so many other figurative and philosophical messages in surreal form around it.

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