It's All About Love

Infobox Film
name = It's All About Love


director = Thomas Vinterberg
writer = Thomas Vinterberg
Mogens Rukov
starring = Joaquin Phoenix
Sean Penn
Claire Danes
music = Nikolaj Egelund
Zbigniew Preisner
editing = Valdís Óskarsdóttir
released = 10 January, 2003
runtime = 105 min.
language = English
budget = $10,000,000 [http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0443,lim2,57860,20.html village voice > film > It's All About Love by Dennis Lim ] ]
imdb_id = 0273689
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"It's All About Love" is a 2003 film by Thomas Vinterberg. It can be classified as an apocalyptic science fiction movie, but the author prefers to call it "a dream".

The movie was written, directed and produced by Vinterberg over a period of five years. In difference from his earlier Danish films, this movie was entirely in English and featured among others Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Sean Penn. The movie was not very successful, and critics mostly panned it.Rotten Tomatoes [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/its_all_about_love/ rating] : 14% positive. For individual reviews, see box on the right.] Richard Roeper called the film "like Kubrick with a talent-ectomy" and Jack Matthews of the "New York Daily News" declared that "Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it"; ] . Dennis Lim of the "Village Voice", however found some to like in the film: :"It's All About Love" is, by any measure, a colossal folly – ridiculed at its Sundance '03 premiere (where, to this viewer at least, it seemed like a lone beacon of nutty integrity), supposedly disowned by its stars (rumor has it Claire Danes burst into tears upon seeing the end result) and jettisoned by original distributor Focus. But this $10 million Danish-British-French-U.S.-Japanese-Swedish-Norwegian-German-Dutch co-production is a film maudit for the ages — rapturous and inexplicable in equal measure. ]

At a certain point during production Vinterberg called up Ingmar Bergman and asked him to come and help him finish the film, as he felt he could not complete it himself. He recalls that:

:He roared with laughter and said I had to be out of my mind. There was nothing he was less interested in. And he also said I was an idiot that had not decided fast enough what to do after "The Celebration (Festen)", which he, by the way, called a masterpiece. It was a very contended conversation.

(From an interview in Berlingske Tidende.)

The movie also breaks every rule of the Dogme 95 manifest that Vinterberg authored with Lars von Trier.

"It's all about love" was produced by Nimbus Film.

External links

* [http://www.nimbusfilm.dk/itsallaboutlove/ Official website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/a2286623 Director interview about film]
* [http://www.nimbusfilm.dk/enter_content.html Nimbus Film official website]

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