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07/24/08
Love in the Time of Money (2002)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 7 Rotten:30 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Synopsis: Peter Mattei's depressing, bleakly humorous drama paints a grim portrait of life in the big city. The film follows nine confused and desperate New Yorkers who are looking for love in all the wrong places: an inexperienced prostitute (Vera Farmiga), a troubled contractor (Domenick... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Dominick Lombardozzi, Jill Hennessy, Malcolm Gets, Steve Buscemi
Director: Peter Mattei
Screenwriter: Peter Mattei
Producer: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, Gretchen McGowan
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Screenwriter: Peter Mattei
Producer: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot, Gretchen McGowan
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Reviews
Top Critic
It is a great character study that ranks with Paul Thomas Anderson's epic Magnolia.
12/16/02
The latest vapid actor's exercise to appropriate the structure of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen.
12/06/02
I'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept, but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché.
12/06/02
[I]f you've been to more than one indie flick in your life, chances are you've already seen this kind of thing.
12/05/02
The overall fabric is hypnotic, and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy.
12/05/02
Despite impeccable acting ... and a script that takes some rather unexpected (even, at times, preposterous) turns, Love is just too, too precious in the end.
11/27/02
The problems of the people in Love in the Time of Money are hardly specific to their era. They just have problems, which are neither original nor are presented in convincing way.
11/22/02
It doesn't help that the director and cinematographer Stephen Kazmierski shoot on grungy video, giving the whole thing a dirty, tasteless feel.
11/22/02
If this is an example of the type of project that Robert Redford's lab is willing to lend its imprimatur to, then perhaps it's time to rethink independent films.
11/21/02
Mattei's underdeveloped effort here is nothing but a convenient conveyor belt of brooding personalities that parade about as if they were coming back from Stock Character camp -- a drowsy drama infatuated by its own pretentious self-examination.
11/18/02
Unfortunately, a cast of competent performers from movies, television and the theater are cast adrift in various New York City locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style.
11/06/02
Will probably be one of those movies barely registering a blip on the radar screen of 2002.
11/03/02
An intriguing cinematic omnibus and round-robin that occasionally is more interesting in concept than in execution.
11/02/02
An exercise in cynicism every bit as ugly as the shabby digital photography and muddy sound.
11/01/02
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