Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love takes place in the near future and tells the story of two lovers fighting for love in a world out of balance. It is a classic love story with elements of Hitchcockian suspense. John (Joaquin Phoenix) and the world famous ice skater Elena (Claire Danes) have a cosmopolitan marriage and have lived apart for a number of years. John in Poland, Elena mostly in New York. Time has made the distance between them grow, and eventually John goes to see Elena in New York to get a divorce. But as John arrives in New York he realizes that unexpected and inexplicable things are going on around Elena. The people he knew as friends might not be friends after all. The love that he thought had died burst into flames again. And it becomes up to John to save Elena from her destiny. If he can.
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- : Thomas Vinterberg
- : Tim Lewis
- : Mogens Rukov
- : Anthony Dod Mantle
- : Ellen Lens
- : Kristian Eidnes Andersen
- : Peter Aalbaek Jensen
- : Jesper Lorents
- : Ellen Lens
- : Nikolaj Egelund
- : Zbigniew Preisner
- : Bo Ehrhardt
- : Lars Bredo Rahbek
- : Stig Günther
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Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love takes place in the near future and tells the story of two lovers fighting for love in a world out of balance.-
Vinterberg is concerned about the loss of elemental humanity, the chilling of the heart and the soul and the difficulty people have in connecting despite technological inventions that greatly expedite contact and speed travel. These are sympathetic notions, and there are moments, especially toward the end, when they are expressed in poignant ways, no matter how muddled the narrative has become by this point. Both the artistic intent and package that contains them are honorable and even arresting at times, but they haven't been wedded together comfortably, and there are significant deficiencies on the basic level of storytelling.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
