It's All About Love (2003)

A Masterpiece!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This was so mediocre that I stopped watching after half an a hour of suffering. The movie is a collection of juvenile ideas that remind me of silly crap I would come up with back when I was a teenager and think it was ingenious but reflecting on it now only makes me cringe. Silly stuff like floating Ugandans and that TV report with that man saying something like "we are not angels we didn't choose to fly, we want to be on the ground just like you" with super dramatic music playing in the background was the epitome of stupid. Also that crap about everyone dying around because they lack love is equally retarded. The plot is a joke and I figured most of it just from the half hour I saw (I actually was very surprised how accurate I was after checking IMDb, however, that had more to do with the laziness of the script writers than my "plot-guessing" abilities.)To be avoided.

I can't in any way comprehend how can someone say that he/she can't understand this film. If you have more than 16 years and you didn't understand this movie than you should never touch a film from now on and comment on IMDb as if your opinion matters in some way.This movie is a ultimate work of art.. a masterpiece. If you didn't understand it than make the good choice.. watch it again and again and again, until you will get it you **** or kill yourself.. Because of you this film has a overall note of 5 and this kind of films will never be made because you ***** represent the majority, the public...Whatever, if your IQ is higher than 5 than go see this movie. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.11 out of 10. a masterpiece

I guess you have to be pretty open minded and ready for weird things when watching this film... Although it is strange that people are dying in the streets, it adds to the message and emotional impact of the movie; the writer made the future seem like a colder place, then now, lacking closeness and love. For this reason people who do not have enough love are liable to die, "something to do with the heart". Although, strange, this is an interesting and completely original way of making a film about love. The two separated married couple, Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes, unite again to finalize their divorce, but end up trying to escape from a vast conspiracy happening within the Figure Skating Business of Elena (Claire Danes). In this escape, John (Phoenix) remembers his love between his ex wife, and they rekindle their relationship. But throughout the adventure there are struggles with Elena, whom is implied to be self deprecating because of the constant pressures of her career. However, the theme of love is broader than the couple featured in the film, the screenplay was written as if love is lacking in all parts of the world, causing temperatures to drop, and strange "flying" events to occur. Although these are weird and unusual things to connect with love, the writer made his point that he feels as if love is not taken advantage of in the world today, and may be lost further in the future. All these different events add to the theme of the lack of love in the world. Although the movie ends badly, as in the characters, although have found love once again, die in the cold of the snow, the message "Its All About Love" is re-enforced with Sean Penn's character. The character of Marciello isn't necessary to the film, but I feel adds a sense of reality, a detached family member, who isn't completely understood by the audience. And by giving this character the final words of the film, it allowed the audience watching to remain a little bit uncomfortable, since the character was not a familiar one. Overall, the entire film is a bit uncomfortable to watch because of all the weird events, and the emotional ups and downs. The two characters were from Poland, which was another thing that added to the film just having unnecessary things added to it. There are many situations in this film and added scenes, and mere details that are not completely necessary to the plot, or the flow of the story, which make audiences hesitant, or dislike the film. But in my opinion, it made the film unique, and more universal (meaning it deals with things all over the world in the film, not everyone in the world will understand it hah). The acting in this film was pretty good, Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes have done films where they were coupled before, and they really are believable. Sean Penn also plays his role perfectly, although barely in the film. The rest of the characters are odd, and sometimes seem like they are just reading lines, however this could be another aspect to the film and to the writer/director. Overall, really different, but the message, and the idea behind all the weird aspects, are really original, and an overall emotional, scenically beautiful, and unique film.

Lars von Trier, who invented the minimalist film movement Dogme, followed up his own Dogme film with a musical. It's a sign that the ideas of the movement sprung from a general interest in how films are made, rather than a commitment to minimalism per se; and the same thing can also be seen in Thomas Vinterberg's post-Dogme film 'It's All About Love', which does have a certain minimalist aesthetic, but which is made with all of the tools available to the modern film-maker that the Dogme movement so consciously abandoned. And in spite of it's dreadfully uninspiring title, it turns out to be an interesting movie: stylised, beautifully constructed, and engagingly mysterious. Vinterberg proves himself to be a master of mood, creating scenes of a tender, haunting beauty but backed by a vague sense of menace. But judged purely as a thriller, the film is less good, because the menace and mystery never coalesce into something more certain, what we have here is images of a storyline, but no real story: things happen in sequence, and sometimes we are allowed to understand why, but it's unclear that there is a larger whole waiting to be discovered. Instead, we are presented with the illusion of fragments, beautifully executed (and Claire Daines in particular plays her role well), but without any necessary (visible or invisible) connectedness. The overall result could not be called great; but it is ambitious, distinctive, and directed with no little skill.