Despite the fact that the central character is a very strong woman, the film is essentially a male fantasy.
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09/18/05
When Will I Be Loved (2004)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:23
Rotten:47
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Neve Campbell bares all in this seemingly misogynistic trifle.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: "When Will I Be Loved" is a hip, scintillating, post-feminist film that takes a classic Hollywood form . that of leading lady as black widow -- and brings it edgy new life. James Toback, a... [More]
Starring: Neve Campbell, Fred Weller, Dominic Chianese, Karen Allen
Director: James Toback
Reviews for When Will I Be Loved
If you're looking for something hip, brisk and sexy, then this is a pretty decent proposal.
09/20/05
Top CriticCampbell is clearly having a great time with such a duplicitous, multi-layered character and as a result, it's her sexiest performance to date.
09/24/05
Tries hard to be endearingly eccentric but crashes in a web of its own convolution.
09/26/05
Many viewers will be turned off by this depraved look inside the darkest corners of one filmmaker's psyche, but I found it refreshing and quite daring.
05/26/06
The conglomeration of shtick never adds up to be anything particularly interesting, the story has no compulsion or bite as a dark melodrama or psychological voyeurism.
09/23/04
Were it not for Campbell's classy magnetism in the role, the crass motivations behind this episodic pastiche would be easier to reject.
08/17/04
Another depressing dispatch from the war between the sexes by James Toback.
09/13/04
There’s always something both depressing and perversely fascinating in watching a bad movie made by a great filmmaker.
09/10/04
The hustle has always seemed more exciting than the payoff for James Toback. When Will I Be Loved is no exception to this filmmaker's own idiosyncratic rules of conduct.
09/10/04
Part Indecent Proposal, part Toback wordiness and is so short it feels like a one-act play with a curtain that never rises again.
09/20/04
With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge.
09/09/04
Top CriticIt offers no new insights into the corrupting effects of money and erotic power.
09/23/04
The opening and closing nude scenes serve no purpose in the story except to sell tickets - Neve, you've been pimped.
09/26/04
Toback doesn't seem to have much more in mind than looking for new ways to give his festering observations about Manhattan a kinky pull on the whiskers.
09/24/04
Naked Neve Campbell gets painstakingly clean in one of the most beautiful showers I have ever seen.
09/09/04
Like a jazz solo that touches familiar themes on its way to a triumphant and unexpected conclusion.
09/24/04
Top CriticThe story behind this deeply explicit drama often falls short -- in fact, it's arguable if there even is a story -- but the quality of its words keeps it fresh and compelling.
10/28/04
At its best, the movie is a reminder that, among contemporary filmmakers, Toback is perhaps the most keenly perceptive about the way sex can alternately (or sometimes all at once) be used as a gift, a toy and a weapon.
09/09/04
Maybe it’s the rich milieu, or perhaps it’s Toback’s obsession with sex and money, but there’s something distinctly “French” about the film’s vernacular.
09/07/04
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