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1 day ago · Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into longing, self-searching, and passion. Sophia (a magnetic Magalie Lépine Blondeau), is a philosophy professor who is stably, but stagnantly in-like with her wealthy partner of 10 years, Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume).
1 day ago · The thing that we call romantic love exists at the messy intersection of the evolutionary hard-wiring that drives us to reproduce, centuries of increasingly complex manmade social norms, and a bit ...
1 day ago · Please verify your email address. The Nature of Love explores binaries like passion vs. companionship, beauty vs. intelligence, and realism vs. fantasy in relationships. The film's intense ...
5 days ago · Monia Chokri’s spiky tale has all the elements of a twinkly Netflix romcom, as Sophia (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau) falls hard and fast for Sylvain (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), the rugged, beer-swilling contractor renovating her rural lake cabin. But from them she’s fashioned a sharp, sensuous comedy, puzzling over the clash between love and class ...
4 days ago · The Nature of Love is a very sexy movie, a prime example of the oft cited ‘female gaze’, with minimal nudity and maximal suggestion. Blondeau and Cardinal fully sell the sheet-rumpling intensity of their characters’ destructive, devouring desire as they smash her cerebral – and his primal – essence together.
1 day ago · Unsure if it's a sexy romcom, an essay on class divisions or an exploration of female sexuality, The Nature of Love seems unlikely to draw this summer’s absent cinemagoers back into the darkness. Ambitious attempt to jazz up a fairly standard drama with fancy framing fails to ignite. Film review by Saskia Baron.
3 days ago · July 3, 2024. Actor-turned-director Monia Chokri’s The Nature of Love opens with a philosophical debate. In a brown-toned home, inflected with ember and golden highlights, old friends discuss the question of romantic love. Children scream in the background, and wine is being spilled as they speak frankly and intimately about the many subjects ...
