Goldberg's experiment is always interesting, even when it stumbles.
I Love Your Work (2005)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:7
Rotten:24
Average Rating:5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: I Love Your Work is a dark psychological drama about the disintegration of Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) a movie star who is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and... I Love Your Work is a dark psychological drama about the disintegration of Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) a movie star who is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and addicted to romantic fantasies about idealistic love and his once simple life. With his celebrity marriage to the beautiful actress Mia (Franka Potente) already strained by jealousy and frustration after only a year together, Gray Evans is looking for escape. An avid photographer, his voyeuristic nature leads him to a local video store, where a chance encounter with a the video clerk's wife Jane (Marisa Coughlan) leads to a dangerous obsession over what he imagines to be an ideal love. Gray falls further over the edge, as his conceptions of love and reality are further blurred by the similarities between Jane and his ex-girlfriend Shana (Christina Ricci) to the point where obsession becomes delusion. Gray's life is further complicated by the realities of his own celebrity, an obsessive fan (Jason Lee) and the need for him to create his public persona as a successful man with a successful marriage. Profession, obsession, and delusion twist together beyond repair when Gray pulls the video clerk (Joshua Jackson), an ambitious screenwriter, into his world by offering to make a movie with him. Their relationship succeeds in bringing him closer to Jane but takes away any last hold on reality, as his fantasy leads to destruction. The layered narrative swings around on itself, taking us on a journey through love, madness and paranoia all the while holding on to a darkly comic view of its own absurd world of crazy Russian bodyguards, (Jared Harris) , loyal assistants (Judy Greer), playboy producers (Vince Vaughn) and true celebrity (Elvis Costello). --© ThinkFilm [More]
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Franka Potente, Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Elvis Costello
Director: Adam Goldberg
Director: Adam Goldberg
Studio: ThinkFilm
Reviews for I Love Your Work
When the film goes into its second half, the initial fascination has almost worn off.
A jumbled parabola of self-deceptions, head trips and feints -- colorful and stimulating but not completely satisfying.
So many questions are raised from both sides of the celebrity fence that the film could only have been made by someone as on-the-edge of stardom as [Goldberg].
The filmmaking is actually quite polished, and Ribisi is fascinating to watch -- his fluttery weirdness has never seemed more grounded and resonant, turning Gray’s self-destructive egoism into near tragedy.
It’s Joshua Jackson who’s a powerhouse here...a very admirable film though, and for a first-time filmmaker, it’s a great accomplishment.
Goldberg takes his message really seriously, abandoning a satirical edge early on, as if he were the first person to ever discover that celebrity is hollow.
It's too busy trying to be clever that it forgets to give us anything that's actually interesting.
Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.
I Love Your Work gets the dissonance of the celebrity lifestyle to a T. But the self-reflexive strategy of Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart is too brainy by half.
You know you’re in trouble when a movie arrives in theatres in the fall of 2005 right after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the fall of 2003.
I Love Your Work has its rewards for those up to the challenge of tackling its nonlinear structure and brooding nature.
Maybe the point is to be bewildered. That would be fine had the film created any resonant power. Instead, we're merely bemused.
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