|||||| The Planet of Great Moviez ||||||||: Love (2005)

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Love (2005)

Love is a 2005 independent feature film, written, directed and edited by Vladan Nikolic , the film was made in New York City with a cast and crew from over 20 countries. The film was shot on mini DV in 20 days, transferred to 35mm film, and received high praise in the September 2005 issue of American Cinematographer for its stylish look. It impressed audiences and critics at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival , Venice Film Festival, and the Oldenburg Film Festival. Love also won the Prix De Jeunes at the Cinéma Tout Ecran festival in Geneva, Switzerland . Critics compared the film to Pulp Fiction, Memento, Rashomon, and in its political subtext to Marathon Man and Dirty Pretty Things (Variety).

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A multi-perspectival film, Vladan Nikolic's dynamic thriller Love reinvigorates a stale cinematic format and imparts a compelling message all without a single head-on collision. This story of a hitman, his ex-lover, and her current boyfriend trapped within a large and increasingly sticky web of intrigue could be told from any number of viewpoints: Nikolic has the guts to try to tell them all and the skill to use the technique as more than a stylistic crutch. Skeptical of rudimentary good/evil dichotomies—though, amusingly, the key American character in the international cast is not— Love uses an interlocking structure to illustrate its point. Opinions of characters are open to constant revision as assassins are revealed as soldiers and murderers become caretakers. Through the first two-thirds, the crosscutting aims to give viewers a truth larger than that available to the characters, but the finale boldly turns the tables: During a riff on John Woo–styled face-offs, Nikolic cycles through his characters' perspectives, withholding key information to prolong the suspense.

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