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It's All About Love
Directed byThomas Vinterberg
Written byThomas Vinterberg
Mogens Rukov
StarringJoaquin Phoenix
Sean Penn
Claire Danes
Edited byValdís Óskarsdóttir
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Production
company
Release date
  • 10 January 2003 (2003-01-10)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10,000,000[1]
Box office$478,996[2]

It's All About Love is a 2003 romance-drama film written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Its narrative can be classified as apocalyptic science fiction, but Vinterberg prefers to call it "a dream".[citation needed] Unlike the director's earlier Danish-language films, It's All About Love is entirely in English and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Sean Penn. The production was led by Denmark's Nimbus Film, but the film was largely an international co-production, with involvement of companies from nine different countries in total. It was very poorly received by film critics.

Cast

Production

The film was written, directed, and produced by Thomas Vinterberg over a period of five years. It was produced through Nimbus Film.

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. Vinterberg recalled 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.)

Reception

The film was not very successful, and critics mostly panned it.[3] 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".[3] Dennis Lim of the Village Voice, however found something to like in the film:

It's All About Love is, by any measure, a colossal folly – ridiculed at its Sundance '03 premier, 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.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "village voice > film > It's All About Love by Dennis Lim".
  2. ^ "It's All About Love". Box Office Mojo.
  3. ^ a b Rotten Tomatoes rating: 14% positive. For individual reviews, see box on the right.
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