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07/14/2020 Hahaha，actually，this movie got a high praise in douban which is Chinese movie rating web. See more 05/20/2020 The first one is really good but the others are awful. See more 05/21/2018 Eros is an anthology film that is ostensibly focused on the themes of love and sex. It’s debatable how successful each of the short films was at conveying those themes, or even telling a decent story. In many ways this fell prey to the law of diminishing returns as each moment you watch it got worse and worse. But let me discuss each short film individually because trying to talk about the film as one complete story is impossible. There is no connective tissue between each segment, and they all feel totally different from one another. 1. “The Hand” – This is the only section of this movie that is worth watching. It is slow-paced and methodical, but it tells a compelling story of love and lust. Wong Kar-Wai is able to attain this without being exploitative at all. There is almost no nudity shown and yet it feels raw and real. There is beauty, emotion, and subtlety to this short film. You can feel that this is handled by the same director as In the Mood for Love, because it has a similar feel to it. If you can find this short film isolated from the rest of Eros I would highly recommend it, because The Hand on its own is a superb work of art. It’s too bad it is dragged down by the other components of the movie. 2. “Equilibrium” – Everything seems right for this to be a great chapter in this anthology. I mean it has Steven Soderbergh as writer/director, and it has Robert Downey, Jr. and Alan Arkin starring in it. But there is no story here. It is RDJ rambling about a sexual dream for way too long, and Alan Arkin acting distracted. I think I get the point of the short, because it seems to be focusing on the fact that the things which seem erotic and exciting to one person can be boring to someone listening to them. But that means most of this segment is also boring to those watching it. I was as distracted as Alan Arkin while watching this sequence, and could not care less about how it was resolved. 3. “The Dangerous Thread of Things” – Even if there was some redeeming quality left in Eros after the disaster of the second short, it was stomped out of existence when this one started. Michelangelo Antonioni should be ashamed of what he put into this short film. It is pure exploitation taken to a disgraceful level. This is like sitting through soft-core porn, and I won’t be embarrassed to admit I fast-forwarded through large chunks of it. There was no story, there was no purpose, there was just nudity for the sake of nudity. It’s the kind of thing I would like to unsee if that was possible. See more 01/18/2016 I have no strong feelings either way. See more camille l 06/22/2014 Eros part d'une très bonne idée, un film à sketches par Michelangelo Antonioni, Wong Kar Wai et Steven Soderbergh autour de l'amour et du sexe. Malheureusement, les trois segments sont très inégaux et si ceux de Soderbergh & Wong Kar Wai sont plutôt bons (même s'ils sont très loin de leurs standards, malgré des thèmes récurrents dans leurs oeuvres), celui d'Antonioni est une catastrophe extrêmement gênante. Pire encore, les trois segments ne forment aucune unité et on peine à comprendre ce que le film raconte. See more 10/04/2013 The Hand was perhaps the only thing I liked about this movie, and I respect Wong Kar-wai for that. Equilibrium was okay, and I believe Soderbergh is decent, but I was very disappointed with Michelangelo Antonioni's addition, though I have deep respect for Antonioni as a filmmaker. See more Read all reviews

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