Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.
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06/15/07
Eros (2005)
33 %
Reviews Counted: 66 Fresh: 22 Rotten:44 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
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) contributes "The Hand," a moving, poignant tale of a simple tailor, Zhang (Chang Chen), who... [More]
Genre: Romance
Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin, Massimo Ranieri
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
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
Reviews
Top Critic
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.
10/10/06
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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.
06/05/08
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08/16/07
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.
05/28/07
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.
03/29/06
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
02/09/06
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.
09/26/05
A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.
07/08/05
It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.
07/08/05
No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.
07/05/05
Eros aims high. But aside from Wong Kar-Wai's effectively compressed erotic musings, it falls short.
06/15/05
At least the editor had the good sense to place Antonioni's film at the end, allowing you to walk out without having to see a cinematic great in pathetic decline
05/11/05
Eros comes nowhere near meeting the challenge of its title when compared to the increasingly lewd standards of our current cinema.
04/28/05
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