Eros

Name: Eros
Genre: Drama
Released: April 8, 2005
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 51

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Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: April 8, 2005 | R

Summary: Three visionary directors, three stories of love.

Director: Kar Wai Wong and Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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David Sterritt

The best is "Equilibrium" by Soderbergh, about a man being analyzed by a distracted shrink. Read full review

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

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

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

Kirk Honeycutt

Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise. Read full review

Ella Taylor

A maddeningly uneven triptych. Read full review

Desson Thomson

It doesn't seem like overstating things to say that Eros becomes steadily worse as it goes along. Read full review

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Barbie

Jun 15, 2006

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 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.… Expand

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