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  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary 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...

Directed By: Boaz Yakin

Written By: Boaz Yakin

  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Death in Love

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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...

Directed By: Boaz Yakin

Written By: Boaz Yakin

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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80
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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A pretentious and stilted but weirdly compelling blend of sins-of-the-parent saga and horror movie.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
70
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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60
Challenging and thoughtful, but is also, like its characters, a prisoner of its own anger.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
20
Death in Love hasn't a drop of humor or hope. Its dull, smudged look makes every environment appear joyless and claustrophobic.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
20
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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There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company DI Love
Release Date Jul 17, 2009
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
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Tagline Sin. Suffer. Repeat.
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Awards

Boston Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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