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  Review by Two Cineasts ★★★★½

  Film reviews in 22 sentences (or less)
  Today: Love

  „A low-budget indie science fiction film looking at the journey of loneliness, life, love… .“
  (The Two Cineasts)

  Hi everybody, this is really a fine little sci-fi movie. The director William Eubank delivers this first class directing debut. One of his latest pictures Underwater, with Kirsten Stewart, is a cool deepsea horror thriller with a very nice optic. Love is a movie that reminds easily of pictures like 2001:... or Solaris. A big philosophical topic, about life from outer space, that shows us the value of life on Earth and without the CGI overdose we are used to seeing in those pictures nowadays. In three different story lines we follow the…

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  Review by Devon Seltzer ★½ 3

  Quite a few directors have come from the world of music videos, often times when making the jump to feature films a director will bring over some of the stylings from their video days, though it's probably rarely intentional. The same cannot be said of Love, a film which is essentially the world's longest, most boring music video ever. The passion project of rock band Angels & Airwaves, Love tells the story of Captain Lee Miller, a lone astronaut taking care of the International Space Station, everything is all well and good, until his communication with Earth vanishes one day, leaving him truly and completely alone.

  Except he's not alone, he has the ghosts of countless better sci-fi films to keep…

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  Review by Matt ★★

  I absolutely love (lol) sci fi but christ it doesn't half blow hot and cold. There's barely any middle ground with it, just so inconsistent almost from one film to the next.

  This was such a patience tester in that regard, some scenes were very well realised and sucked me into its lonely world, yet others bored me to utter tears with the hideously boring faux-intellectual monologues and grinding pace.

  Whereas the admirable tributes to 2001 and Carl Sagan were welcome - especially with it being the debut effort of William Eubank - there was just something so frustrating about this mysterious study of human emotion in the cold ether, something that's simply been done better before.

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  Review by Keith ★★★½

  Ambitious and reaching (it's titled "Love" for goodness' sakes) science fiction that drifts and wanders but delivers impressive visuals and a thought-provoking story. Numerous dialogue free passages feel like mini-music videos, but the rather generic soundtrack doesn't deliver a necessary strong motif or memorable theme to provide enough momentum or cohesion.

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  Review by BennyMzn ★★ 2

  Wenn auf dem Cover der DVD direkt über dem Namen des Films der Name einer Band steht, dann erwartet man doch dass besagte Musiker viel zum Film beisteuern. In dem Fall ragt hier doch recht eindeutig der Name Angels & Airways heraus. Da verspricht man sich eindeutig mehr als hier geliefert wird.

  Love selbst ist eine recht interessante Geschichte über eine einsame Mission im All. Leider ist diese selbst mit nur 81 Minuten noch ein gutes Stück zu lang. Die Story gibt einfach nicht genug her um einen Film zu füllen. Vielleicht wäre ein Kurzfilm hier die weitaus bessere Wahl gewesen. So 40-50 Minuten wären, denke ich, die richte Dauer hierfür. Und wie bereits erwähnt hätte ich mir vom Soundtrack wesentlich…

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  Review by ava adore ★ 8

  i want to die

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  Review by Old Man Angelo ★★★

  William Eubank's debut is a massively ambitious attempt, kind of like a film student attempting to make a Carl Sagan flavoured 2001: A Space Odyssey. He doesn't have the experience or budget to quite pull it off, but the sheer bravado of the attempt carries through on the screen and ultimately makes it a rewarding experience.

  The film kinda sorta deals with an astronaut isolated in space facing the possibility he's the last human being left alive, juxtaposed with a civil war era soldier, who has been the sole survivor of countless battles tasked with investigating a crashed alien ship. The movie debates between humanity's seeming insignificance on a cosmic scale and the same time, the profundity of the effects…

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  Review by Andrew Liverod ★★★★½

  A terrific sci-fi film that examines loneliness, the journey of life and how we touch others. Absolutely loaded with imagery that will give you plenty to think about after the credits have rolled. A must watch film for those bored by the CGI, inane dialogue and weak characterisation and plots of modern science fiction movies.

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  Review by MichaelEternity ★★½

  "Connection is perhaps the most cherished thing any being can have." - this movie, patently unaware of the life-size Sarah Michelle Gellar cardboard cut-out my mom bought me as a teen during my "Buffy" phase, that I still keep in storage

  Astronaut checking up on the International Space Station loses contact with ground control on Earth (basically a stripped-down version of the plot of this year's "I.S.S."), under-$1 million movie budget requires all exciting sci-fi tropes to be jettisoned in favor of this guy twirling out into a Terrence Malickian thought experiment in pensive isolation. Memories, flashbacks, even a connection to the Civil War all help break the monotony of watching a guy sit there brooding inside a space capsule…

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  Review by Simone ★★★ 2

  Love is about an astronaut, Lee Miller, who is relegated to a completely solitary existence aboard the International Space Station. After he's abandoned and completely cut off from the world and humanity, he quite understandably loses his grip on reality and is crippled by loneliness. When he finds an old civil war journal hidden in the station, things get… interesting. That's all I'll say to avoid spoilers.

  I have a love-hate relationship with microbudget films. In the case of Love, I actually kinda dug the creative, lo-fi visuals. A lot of thought went into set and costume design, as well as creating a visual difference between the scenes that take place in the present and the past. Where the film…

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  Review by zauberknochen ★★★

  Ich habe nicht wirklich verstanden, worum es hier eigentlich geht oder was mir der Film am Ende eigentlich sagen will.
  Als ich aber nach dem Film erst erfuhr, dass LOVE anscheinend zum gleichnamigen Musikalbum von Angels & Airwaves gehört, wurde mir das Ganze zumindest insofern klarer, als dass sich der Film tatsächlich wie ein Musikvideo auf Spielfilmlänge anfühlt.

  LOVE hat absolut großartige Bilder, eine fantastische Kamera und weißt in vielerlei Hinsicht sehr viel Kreativität auf. Auch die Grundhandlung um einen Astronauten, der auf der ISS festsitzt, fand ich cool aber dafür, dass der Film insgesamt doch sehr bedeutungsschwanger daherkommt, blieb er mir am Ende dann doch etwas zu schleierhaft und verpasst es leider, mir wirklich eine entscheidende Aussage ans Herz zu legen!

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  Review by annapips ★★★½

  It was beautiful...
  But I don't know what happened.