director and screenwriter – Gaspar Noe

producers - Gaspar Noe, Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Rodrigo Teixeira and Genevieve Lemal

camera – Benoit Debie

editors – Gaspar Noe and Denis Bedlow

production designer – Samantha Benne

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"I want to make movies of blood, cum, and tears."

While these words are spoken by a student filmmaker in Gaspar Noé's Love, they might as well come straight from the French auteur himself. Employing his trademark fractured narrative, Noé opens with an intimate scene of lovemaking between American film student Murphy and the enchanting artist Electra - and suddenly cuts to two years later as Murphy wakes next to a different woman, Omi. Omi is the mother of Murphy's child, and Electra seems a distant memory. But when he receives a call from Electra's mother, searching for her missing daughter, Murphy is led to fantasize about what could have been.

Though it wouldn't be a Noé film without shocking and explicit moments, these give way to a revealing examination of the nature of love and its physical expression. Full of references to Noé's cinematic influences, from the Malick-like narration to the Godardian intertitles, Love recalls classics such as Last Tango in Paris and recent works such asNymph()maniac, with its rare honesty of the portrayal of love and sex.