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★★★½ (3.5/5) Mood: Devastating, visceral, and profoundly lonely.

Murphy is not a good man. He is selfish, pretentious, and a coward. Noé forces us to sit in his memory palace and realize that his “great love” with Electra was doomed not by fate, but by his own inability to grow up. The film’s most devastating line comes near the end, whispered by Murphy: “I realized I didn’t love Omi. I just used her to forget Electra.” Love.2015.720p.BRRip.x264.AAC-ETRG

But if you watch it as a cautionary tale—a warning about the difference between lust and love, and the ghost of the one who got away—it will wreck you. ★★★½ (3

You need a plot with forward momentum, or if unsimulated sex acts make you uncomfortable regardless of artistic context. Have you seen Gaspar Noé’s Love? Did you find it profound or pretentious? Let me know in the comments below. Noé forces us to sit in his memory