Eros
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai
Genre: Indie, Romance Film, Drama, Romantic drama
Year: 2004
Country: Hong Kong, Italy, United States of America, China, France, Luxembourg
Language: Standard Mandarin, English Language, Italian Language
Starring: Alan Arkin, Gong Li, Robert Downey Jr., Cecilia Luci, Regina Nemni, Chang Chen, Ele Keats, Christopher Buchholz, Luisa Ranieri
Eros is a 2004 portmanteau film consisting of three short films: Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, Steven Soderbergh's Equilibrium and Michelangelo Antonioni's The Dangerous Thread of Things.
In North America, critical response for Eros was very mixed. American critics were almost unanimous in their praise of Wong Kar-wai's segment, and almost unanimous in their disapproval of the Michelangelo Antonioni piece. Steven Soderbergh's contribution drew mixed notices.
Roger Ebert gave Wong's segment four stars (out of a possible four), Soderbergh's three stars, and Antonioni's a mere one star. On the syndicated television show Ebert & Roeper, he gave the film a "thumbs up" rating. In his Chicago Sun-Times review, he wrote:
"Are the three films in Eros intended to be (a) erotic, (b) about eroticism or (c) both? The directors respond in three different ways. Wong Kar-wai chooses (c), Steven Soderbergh chooses (b) and Michelangelo Antonioni, alas, arrives at None of the Above...The Antonioni film is an embarrassment. Regina Nemni acts all of her scenes wearing a perfectly transparent blouse for no other reason, I am afraid, than so we can see her breasts. Luisa Ranieri acts mostly in the nude. The
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