Brilliantlove (2010)

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Most art movies fall over because of their pretentiousness. This one is bad because it is, well, bad. Incredibly badly made. It doesn't have enough plot to even aspire to being pretentious. Throw in some very weak performances and you have a craptacular movie.The initial idea wasn't that original to start off, and reminded me of 9 Songs (for a few reasons...). However, 9 Songs had a reasonable plot, OK performances and some fantastic music. Not a great movie, but it was OK.BrilliantLove, on the other hand, has nothing going for it. It just seems to drift throughout, with no point, unlikable characters and very lacklustre performances.Avoid.

No money, fame, society or parents can tear down this brilliant and obsessive love. Raw, uninhibited, courageous and original "Brilliant Love" is what its title claims to be, a shining film by real artists. What makes these two young and horny lovers want each other so passionately is what most of people are missing: imaginative and unconstrained attitude towards life, sex and friendship. To watch them LIVE carefree, it lifts you, makes you want to unbound yourself from the claws of consumerism and society's conventions. There is nothing conventional in this film, it is more than love, and there is an attraction beyond love, almost sexual dependence, which is so rare between people. Body fluids, animals, sex and attitudes are part of this well made film by a group of young and talented artists. Manchester and Noon, brilliantly played by Liam Brownie and Nancy Trotter Landry are a delight to watch, and to get pleasure from. Sex films, not porno films, are pretty difficult to make. But here, the balance of nakedness and the creative sexual acts are carefully and masterfully directed and edited. It could be easily called an ode to erotology, life, lovers and passion.

My being is mystified about the tepid reception for this nice little film. In seeing a review that says it is just a contemporary view for today's explorers, I find a great fallacy. It is a struggle also of those left from the 'sixties' of freer loving, understanding some of the stresses of attraction, personal afflictions and distractions as well as rebelling against the mores of the time.The sexuality is both erotic and struggling between desire and freedom. The actors are both much of many persons and dreams, if fleeting or denied. It is extreme at times, but not too. It reveals moments of drunken exuberance and drunken pain, but both are in harmony with deep emotionality, sensuality, creativity and sexuality.With 'Dreamers' being also a favorite, another rare struggle of unfathomable desires played against situations of the moment, I am obviously partial to our sexual enticements, left over from a partially fulfilled life in the sixties. I knew these temptations, experiences, irrationalities and substance induced moments, when things were different. Beyond the erotics of the film, there are a lot of sensualities, both in the still pictures and in the well thought angles of some of the cinematography. This is far more than an excuse for porn, despite the pressured direction of the protagonist who took advantage of this beautifully erotic couple, and who tried to turn their simple erotic complexity into something less than personal.I would recommend this even to conservatives to see that the angst that goes on in life is real. This is a movie about one of the struggles of humanity. Sex is good and how we go about it is personal, and should be able to be portrayed as a personal trip, which this film does. Whether male or female, you should find some identity and eroticism, no matter your background, present or what you would admit.

I was fortunate to be one of the first to see this at the EIFF press screening. I haven't felt a film speak so honestly before. Here we have two characters Manchester and Noon, tangled in a sexually fuelled and intense relationship. They both live for the moment and everything outside their world threatens their together-ness. The film focuses heavily on racy, intimate scenes between the pair. The chemistry between the two is very believable, I especially enjoyed Noons character played by Nancy Trotter Landry. her angelic face catches every single moment of emotion and you are sometimes taken aback at how filthy she is during the film. I also commend Liam Browne who plays Manchester for being brave enough to show his genitals whether urinating or being frozen cold. I haven't seen a film like this where a relationship is so thoroughly sexually explored.The plot of the film is lacking slightly but I feel it is contrasts the mundane northern feel. Nevertheless very good acting and I was fixed to my sit throughout. This feels like the way British cinema should be going, bold, brash and modern.