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Death in Love

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Boaz Yakin

Directed by: Boaz Yakin

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 17, 2009

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for disturbing violent and graphic sexual content, nudity and language

Starring Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, and Adam Brody

Death in Love depicts the effects of a Jewish woman's love affair with the doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp on the lives of her sons many years later. Set in the 1990's, parallel stories unfold revealing their tortured emotional and sexual lives, as her sons struggle against becoming causalities of their Mother's past. (Strand Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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80

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

Death in Love is occasionally pretentious but always riveting. Strap yourself in, especially for those gruesome flashbacks of Nazi medical experiments -- this is one endurance test that's worth the effort.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Duane Byrge

Bisset is powerful as a mother who has virtually devoured her young. With her Medusa-like tresses aswirl, she is truly ferocious.

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70

New York Magazine David Edelstein

A pretentious and stilted but weirdly compelling blend of sins-of-the-parent saga and horror movie.

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60

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Challenging and thoughtful, but is also, like its characters, a prisoner of its own anger.

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20

Village Voice Ella Taylor

Someday, a wise and potent film will be made about the Holocaust's legacy on succeeding generations. Posing as a study in evil, Death in Love is claptrap that confuses bile with art.

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20

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Death in Love hasn't a drop of humor or hope. Its dull, smudged look makes every environment appear joyless and claustrophobic.

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New York Post Lou Lumenick

There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.

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What Our Users Said

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