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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Romance

US Box Office: $53,666

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

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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...

Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
08/21/09
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

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.

Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/08
Robert Davis
Robert Davis
Paste Magazine
N/R

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Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/16/07
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out New York

I guess one out of three ain't bad.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/31/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/15/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

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.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
05/28/07
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

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.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/10/06
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
BBC

An excruciating festival of middlebrow good taste.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
09/23/06
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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An intriguing but ultimately frustrating triptych.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
08/17/06
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

All three short films were minor works.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/21/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
03/29/06
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

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

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
02/09/06
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

Three smart filmmakers produce three whiffs on the theme of love.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out

confoundingly horrendous

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/17/06
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Filmcritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
09/26/05
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
07/08/05
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
07/08/05
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
N/R

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
07/05/05
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
07/05/05
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Eros aims high. But aside from Wong Kar-Wai's effectively compressed erotic musings, it falls short.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
06/15/05
Zach Hines
Zach Hines
PopMatters
 
 
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