Eros (film)
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| Directed by |
Wong Kar-wai Steven Soderbergh Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Produced by |
Stéphane Tchalgadjieff Domenico Procacci Jacky Pang Yee Wah Jacques Bar Raphael Berdugo Wong Kar-wai Gregory Jacobs |
| Written by | Wong Kar-wai Steven Soderbergh Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Starring |
Gong Li Alan Arkin Robert Downey, Jr. |
| Cinematography |
Christopher Doyle (segment "The Hand") Marco Pontecorvo (segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose") Steven Soderbergh (segment "Equilibrium") (as Peter Andrews) |
| Distributed by |
Warner Independent Pictures (USA) Artificial Eye (UK) |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong United States Italy |
| Language | Mandarin, English, Italian |
| Box office | $1,535,829 |
Eros is a 2004 anthology film consisting of three short segments: The Hand directed by Wong Kar-wai in Mandarin, Equilibrium by Steven Soderbergh in English, and The Dangerous Thread of Things by Michelangelo Antonioni in Italian. Each of the three segments addresses the themes of love and sex.
Miss Hua, a 1960s high-end call girl is visited by a shy dressmaker's assistant Zhang, to take her measure. He hears the sounds of sex, as he waits in her living room. He is drawn towards her but there is no meeting ground between the two individuals from completely different classes. She summons him when her client leaves. She tells him, she will supply him with an aid to his memory. He will think about her while designing her clothes, she says.
Nick Penrose is an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work. He tells his psychiatrist Dr Pearl about a recurring dream of a beautiful naked woman in his apartment, as they discuss the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in the erotic dream.
A bored couple, Christopher and Cloe, take a stroll near a resort on a lake on the coast of Tuscany. Visiting a restaurant on the beach, they see a sexy young woman, Linda. Cloe tells him where she lives, inside a crumbling medieval tower. He goes to visit her and they have sex. As Christopher leaves the place, the two women later encounter each other on the beach, both naked.
According to Wong Kar-wai, the original combination of directors was Antonioni, Pedro Almodóvar and him. But Almodóvar quit the project due to his tight schedule and he eventually used his story to make Bad Education.
When released in Hong Kong and North America, Wong Kar-wai's The Hand was shown first. When shown elsewhere, Michelangelo Antonioni's The Dangerous Thread of Things was shown first. The film was censored for sexual content in the People's Republic of China.
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.
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