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Eros
Warner Independent Pictures

Eros reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 51 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.7 out of 10
based on 22 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content including graphic nudity, and for language

Starring Li Gong, Chang Chen, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Christopher Buchholz, Regina Nemni, and Luisa Ranieri

Three visionary directors, three stories of love.


GENRE(S): Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Michelangelo Antonioni (story and screenplay - segment Il filo pericoloso delle cose)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay - segment Il filo pericoloso delle cose)
Steven Soderbergh (screenplay - segment Equilibrium)
Wong Kar-Wai (screenplay - segment The Hand)
 
DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antonioni (segment Il filo pericoloso delle cose)
Steven Soderbergh (segment Equilibrium)
Wong Kar-Wai (segment The Hand)
 
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 7, 2006 
Theatrical: April 8, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA / Italy / Hong Kong / China / France / Luxembourg / UK 
LANGUAGE(S): English / Italian / Mandarin (with English subtitles) 

What The Critics Said

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100
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The best is "Equilibrium" by Soderbergh, about a man being analyzed by a distracted shrink.
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88
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A classy triple shot of film erotica from three brilliant writer-directors.
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67
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The young guns on board are Wong Kar Wai and Steven Soderbergh, and it's sad to report that they massively outshine the nonagenarian Antonioni.
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63
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Variable ratings: The Hand (4 stars), Equilibrium (3 stars), The Dangerous Thread of Things (1 star).
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60
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
The only real reason to catch Eros is to see Wong Kar-Wai's beautiful opening piece, "The Hand."
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60
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
I guess one out of three ain't bad.
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60
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Lovely though it is to look at, it does not reveal very much. Sampling the works of three prominent directors in one sitting may be what gives anthology films like this one their appeal, but the experience is often more frustrating than fulfilling.
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60
Variety David Rooney
What might have been a cinephile's wet dream turns out instead to be seductive, stimulating and sodden, in that order, in the three-chapter reflection on love and desire.
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60
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
The omnibus film usually saves its home run for the climax, but Eros begins with the best third, Wong Kar-wai's "The Hand."
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58
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
For the invited filmmaker, the opportunity to make a statement is surely a thrill, but for the viewer - who can't pause indefinitely, as with a book, between stories - the focus-shifting is a demand.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's so affected and arch it flops into self parody.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise.
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50
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
When the producers of Eros, a triptych of short stories about eroticism and desire, described what they wanted from Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, American Steven Soderbergh and Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni, they must have written the memo in Chinese. Only Wong attempted something sensual.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The three films are watchable but resolutely minor works, though each has something to recommend it.
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50
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
A maddeningly uneven triptych.
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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
It's a triptych of erotic-themed short films directed by contemporary giants Wong Kar-wai and Steven Soderbergh, and nonagenarian master Michelangelo Antonioni. But the auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment for the European "Red Shoe Diaries."
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Like most anthology films, this thematically linked trio of shorts is a mixed bag.
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50
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Both Wong and Soderbergh have understandably expressed their gratitude at, even in this tripartite way, being part of an Antonioni project... But Eros is better for what they contribute than for his work.
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40
Empire David Parkinson
Interesting misfires from Wong Kar-wai and Steven Soderbergh barely manage to atone for the seedy muddle concocted by eightysomething Michelangelo Antonioni, who mocks his own reputation for existential ellipsis with his voyeuristic vignette.
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30
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
In reality, Eros is a letdown, a collection of bagatelles that, with one exception, fails to live up to its promise.
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25
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A flaccidly pretentious and snooze-inducing trilogy of allegedly racy tales.
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20
Washington Post Desson Thomson
It doesn't seem like overstating things to say that Eros becomes steadily worse as it goes along.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Barbie gave it a6:
Anthology of 3 postmodern shorts from Wong Kar-Wai, Soderbergh, and Antonioni apparently ordered from most to least understandable. Wong's "The Hand" features a great Gong Li, but overall it's much more simplistic than Wong's features. Soderbergh's "Equilibrium" is a piece of fantastic overlapping madness. But Antonioni's short is way, *way* too oblique; although it reminds me of "Close-Up," there is no meaningful revelation at the end, only naked Italian women.

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