Eros (2005)
33 %
Reviews Counted: 66 Fresh: 22 Rotten:44 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 8, 2005 Limited
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) contributes "The Hand," a moving, poignant tale of a simple tailor, Zhang (Chang Chen), who... [More]
Genre: Romance
Starring: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Robert Downey, Alan Arkin, Massimo Ranieri
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
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
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Reviews
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.
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06/05/08
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08/16/07
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Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.
06/15/07
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.
05/28/07
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.
10/10/06
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.
03/29/06
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
02/09/06
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.
09/26/05
A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.
07/08/05
It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.
07/08/05
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No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.
07/05/05
Eros aims high. But aside from Wong Kar-Wai's effectively compressed erotic musings, it falls short.
06/15/05
At least the editor had the good sense to place Antonioni's film at the end, allowing you to walk out without having to see a cinematic great in pathetic decline
05/11/05
Eros comes nowhere near meeting the challenge of its title when compared to the increasingly lewd standards of our current cinema.
04/28/05
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