![]() ![]() ![]() He has delivered with LOVE, but the real shock is the self deprecating prophecy which comes to pass. He likes to shock and it is expected of him. Noe has always liked to push the envelope, like the notorious IRREVERSIBLE, and LOVE is no exception. Scenes of penetrative sex, fellatio and more have seen LOVE labelled pornography. Responsibility is not present, abandonment prevails. The euphoria, the ecstasy, the expectation, the execution, the ejaculations. Like the thin line between pleasure and pain, sanity and madness, there’s not much between romantic love and lust. ![]() He means emotionally but the tactile is part of emotion, especially love. Sentimental sexuality is the term he uses and espouses that it isn’t in movies either at all or not enough. Murphy is a budding filmmaker and he wants to make sensual movies. So when her mother phones Murphy on New Year’s Day to tell him she has not heard from her daughter in a while and fears for her safety, Murphy frets up a flashback to tell the whole sorry story. Omi had been bedded by both in a menage a trois but a takes two to tango tryst is an affronting betrayal and Electra becomes a mourner, morbidly jealous, suicidal. Murphy (Karl Glusman) and Electra (Aomi Muyock) were lovers until Murphy impregnated Omi (Klara Kristin), the result of a broken condom. Three minutes of mutual masturbation between Murphy and Electra serves as a kind of narrative foreplay for the fetishist flashback that is LOVE, Gaspar Noe’s explicit epic of ennui. ![]()
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