Love - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Love"
Love (2015)
Timing:
2:14 (134 min)
6.448/10
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5.8/10
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What's left behind the scenes
- During a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Gaspar Noé stated that the entire screenplay for the film fit on seven pages.
- Speaking about the film 'Love,' director Gaspar Noé has always maintained that he shot a love story from an erotic perspective.
- Gaspar Noé claims that he did not direct the actors during the erotic scenes. He simply told them where to position themselves in relation to the camera and stated: 'This is good. Begin.' 'You just need to tell the actors where to position themselves in relation to the camera, and that's it. They know what's expected of them after that.'
- The first thing director Gaspar Noé filmed were all the erotic scenes – with the involvement of the minimum possible technical staff. This was done to quickly deal with the most difficult elements of the plot, due to which filming could have fallen behind schedule.
- At the beginning of filming, Karl Glusman was the only actor. As for Aomi Muyock and Clara Kristin, they were just girls Gaspar Noé met at some party. He said that it was common for him to ask beautiful young people he met if they would like to appear in a film in minor roles. (In fact, the director also considered casting them in the lead roles, but kept this to himself in order not to embarrass them or, conversely, to not give them inappropriate hope.) If they didn't mind, he would take out his phone and take a picture to see how they looked on camera, and only those who passed the photogenicity test were invited to auditions with Karl Glusman.
- In one of the film's episodes, you can spot the Love Hotel from Gaspar Noé's previous film, "Enter the Void" (2009).
- Filming began in October 2014 and ended in February 2015, three months before the Cannes Film Festival. As Gaspar Noé later recounted, when he received confirmation that the film had been accepted into the festival, he began working around the clock to prepare it for the screening. He finished just hours before the official premiere and was so exhausted that he fell asleep during the showing. According to the director, he was happy that "Love" was screened out of competition, because the most important thing for him was that the first screening took place at the Cannes Film Festival, and whether it was in the competition program or not didn't matter.
- Gaspar Noé stated that he intended to make an erotic film with "realistic and emotionally charged love scenes."
- The names of the film's main characters carry a certain semantic load. The name "Murphy" evokes the so-called "Murphy's Law," which states that if there is a possibility that something unpleasant might happen, it will inevitably happen. The text of this playful philosophical principle even flashes on the screen in one of the episodes. The name "Electra" evokes the "Electra complex," i.e., an unconscious attraction of girls to their own father and rivalry with their mother for his attention. This concept was proposed by Carl Gustav Jung in 1913. In one of the episodes, the main characters discuss Electra's father, and Murphy says, "Electra has a daddy complex."
- Karl Glusman, who played the main role, spoke about how he prepared for the filming: "I re-watched a lot of movies. Gaspar Noé himself didn't tear himself away from the screen. He told me the titles of the films I needed to watch. That's how I saw "Empire of the Senses" (1976) and the film "Don't Look Now" (1973). I adore Mark Rylance. He starred in "Intimacy" (2000), where the viewer sees Mark putting on a condom. I remember thinking, 'If Mark could do it, and I want to be like him, then I need to do it too.' But in general, it's very difficult to prepare when you don't really know what is required of you, and when you don't even have to memorize lines."
- Throughout the film, posters of the following films flash on the screen: "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975), "M" by Fritz Lang (1931), "The Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith (1915), "Taxi Driver" by Martin Scorsese (1976), and "Freaks" by Tod Browning (1932). At one point, Murphy and Electra discuss cinema, and Murphy admits that his favorite film is "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). This work by Stanley Kubrick is also the favorite film of director Gaspar Noé.
- Electra's former acquaintance is named Noé, and the film's director is Gaspar Noé, who plays the role of Aaron Page. Murphy's ex-girlfriend is named Lucille, presumably after Lucille Adziamali, Gaspar Noé's wife.
- The working title of the film was "Danger." It was intended to be Gaspar Noé's next film after his debut, "One Against All" (1998). Initially, the director intended to cast Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, who were married at the time. The actors read the script and refused, stating that the film was too explicit. Gaspar Noé had to quickly come up with the idea for another film where he could cast a star couple, satisfy the producers, and earn money to pay for an apartment. This is how "Irreversible" (2002) was made.
- The character of Murphy is named after Nora Murphy, Gaspar Noé's mother.
- Even before the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the very explicit posters for the film "Love" caused a lot of buzz on social media.
- The entire film was shot in Paris, the capital of France.
- The actors involved in the film had no objections to filming nude scenes, and the director placed virtually no restrictions on them.
- Director John Waters, known for his transgressive films, named the film 'Love' the tenth best film of the year in an interview with an international art criticism journal in December 2015.
- Many considered the film pornographic, however, erotic scenes occupy only twelve minutes. The film itself runs for 2 hours and 15 minutes.
- In the scene where Julio gives Murphy and Electra 'ecstasy,' the composition 'Theme From Blue' by the British group 'Coil' plays in the background.
- Speaking about the film 'Love,' director Gaspar Noé has always maintained that he filmed a love story from an erotic perspective.
- Gaspar Noé claims he did not direct the actors during the erotic scenes. He simply told them where to position themselves relative to the camera and stated: 'That's good. Begin.' 'You just need to tell the actors where to position themselves in relation to the camera, and that's it. They know what's required of them after that.'
- In one episode of the film, you can notice the Love Hotel from Gaspar Noé's previous film 'Enter the Void' (2009).
- Filming began in October 2014 and ended in February 2015, three months before the Cannes Film Festival. As Gaspar Noé later recounted, when he received confirmation that the film had been accepted into the festival, he began working around the clock to prepare the film for the screening. He finished just hours before the official premiere and was so exhausted that he fell asleep during the showing. According to the director, he was happy that 'Love' was shown in a non-competitive screening, because the main thing for him was that the first screening took place at the Cannes Film Festival, and whether it was in the competition program or not didn't matter.
- Gaspar Noé stated that he intended to make an erotic film with 'realistic and emotionally charged love scenes.'
- The names of the film's main characters carry a certain semantic weight. The name "Murphy" evokes the so-called "Murphy's Law," which states that if there is a possibility of something going wrong, it will. The text of this playful philosophical principle even flashes on the screen in one of the episodes. The name "Electra" suggests the "Electra complex," i.e., an unconscious attraction of girls to their father and rivalry with their mother for his attention. This concept was proposed by Carl Gustav Jung in 1913. In one of the episodes, the main characters discuss Electra's father, and Murphy says, "Electra has a father complex."
- Karl Glusman, the lead actor, spoke about how he prepared for the filming: "I rewatched a lot of films. Gaspar Noé himself didn't take his eyes off the screen. He told me the titles of the films I needed to watch. That's how I saw 'Empire of the Senses' (1976) and 'Don't Look Now' (1973). I adore Mark Rylance. He starred in 'Intimacy' (2000), where the viewer sees Mark putting on a condom. I remember thinking, 'If Mark could do it, and I want to be like him, then I need to do it too.' But in general, it's very difficult to prepare when you don't really know what's expected of you, and when you don't even need to memorize lines."
- Throughout the film, posters of the following films flash on the screen: 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom' by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975), 'M' by Fritz Lang (1931), 'The Birth of a Nation' by D.W. Griffith (1915), 'Taxi Driver' by Martin Scorsese (1976), and 'Freaks' by Tod Browning (1932). At one point, Murphy and Electra discuss cinema, and Murphy admits that his favorite film is '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968). This work by Stanley Kubrick is also the favorite film of director Gaspar Noé.
- Even before the film's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the rather explicit posters for the film 'Love' caused a lot of buzz on social media.
- Director John Waters, known for his transgressive films, named 'Love' the tenth best film of the year in an interview with an international art criticism magazine in December 2015.
- In the scene where Julio gives Murphy and Electra “ecstasy,” the composition “Theme From Blue” by the British band “Coil” plays in the background.
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