Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.
Eros (2005)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:23
Rotten:43
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Romance
Theatrical Release:22-09-2006
Synopsis: Three award-winning directors take a look at eroticism, sex, and love in different ways in the international omnibus film EROS. Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS)... Three award-winning directors take a look at eroticism, sex, and love in different ways in the international omnibus film EROS. Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS) contributes "The Hand," a moving, poignant tale of a simple tailor, Zhang (Chang Chen), who becomes obsessed with an elegant, demanding, beautiful call girl, Ms. Hua (Gong Li), as he makes special dresses for her, knowing that she will wear them while being with other men. As her life dovetails, Zhang is faced with the choice of remaining her friend or leaving her to drown in the gutter. In "Equilibrium," writer-director Steven Soderbergh (TRAFFIC, ERIN BROCKOVICH) tells a black-and-white noir farce starring Robert Downey Jr. as an ad man relating his erotic dream to a psychiatrist (Alan Arkin) who appears to be more interested in peeping out his office window. And in "The Dangerous Thread of Things," Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni (BLOWUP, L'AVVENTURA) relates the story of fast-living rich people who toy with sex and romance as if they're games, as a husband (Christopher Buchholz) and wife (Regina Nemni) both become curious about a woman (Luisa Ranieri) who rides her horse across the beach. EROS is a tribute to Antonioni--he was 89 years old when he began filming his segment in 2001--who helped choose Wong and Soderbergh because both have pointed to him as a major influence. [More]
Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin
Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin, Massimo Ranieri, Ele Keats, Regina Nemni, Christopher Buchholz, Luisa Ranieri
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh
Screenwriter: Tonino Guerra, Kar-Wai Wong, Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Stephane Tchal Gadjieff, Jacques Bar, Domenico Procacci, Raphael Berdugo, Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Gregory Jacobs, Kar-Wai Wong
Studio: Warner Independent
Reviews for Eros
Anthologies by their inherent nature tend to be highly uneven. And Eros proves no exception, with the individual sections ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The rain still drips like tears in Wong's faintly lit alleyways, the paint in his narrow corridors continues to peel, the floral-print curtains in his '60s drawing rooms still billow in the breeze--but the colors have faded...
The chatter in the lobby, I predict, will be from people wondering how and when [Antonioni] flipped his lid... The film is a failure, no matter how grandiose its title or the names above it.
If there's a point to any of this, it's the supposedly therapeutic revelation that major female mystery lies in what you can discover by rifling through her purse.
Feels like an experiment that you'd be happy to catch during a film festival ... right before you nodded off for a solid 90-minute catnap.
Eros demeure une expérience réussie en son genre, même si aucun des cinéastes invités ne réussit réellement à repousser les limites de son propre cinéma
The auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment for the European Red Shoe Diaries.
A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.
It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.
No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.
Eros aims high. But aside from Wong Kar-Wai's effectively compressed erotic musings, it falls short.
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