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Eros
EMAILPRINTWarner Independent Pictures

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Based on 22 critic reviews
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Movie Info
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:
Theatrical: April 8, 2005
DVD: February 7, 2006
Running Time: 104 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Italy / Hong Kong / China / France / Luxembourg / UK
Summary
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.
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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The best is "Equilibrium" by Soderbergh, about a man being analyzed by a distracted shrink.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A classy triple shot of film erotica from three brilliant writer-directors.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Variable ratings: The Hand (4 stars), Equilibrium (3 stars), The Dangerous Thread of Things (1 star).
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
The only real reason to catch Eros is to see Wong Kar-Wai's beautiful opening piece, "The Hand."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's so affected and arch it flops into self parody.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The three films are watchable but resolutely minor works, though each has something to recommend it.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Like most anthology films, this thematically linked trio of shorts is a mixed bag.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A flaccidly pretentious and snooze-inducing trilogy of allegedly racy tales.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It doesn't seem like overstating things to say that Eros becomes steadily worse as it goes along.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
