It's All About Love
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| Directed by | Thomas Vinterberg |
| Written by | Thomas Vinterberg Mogens Rukov |
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Joaquin Phoenix Sean Penn Claire Danes |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Edited by | Valdís Óskarsdóttir |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 |
It's All About Love is a 2003 romance-drama film written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Its narrative can be classified as apocalyptic science fiction, but Vinterberg prefers to call it "a dream". Unlike the director's earlier Danish-language films, It's All About Love is entirely in English and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes and Sean Penn. The production was led by Denmark's Nimbus Film, but the film was largely an international co-production, with involvement of companies from nine different countries in total. It was very poorly received by film critics.
The film was written, directed, and produced by Thomas Vinterberg over a period of five years. It was produced through Nimbus Film.
At a certain point during production Vinterberg called up Ingmar Bergman and asked him to come and help him finish the film, as he felt he could not complete it himself. Vinterberg recalled that:
(From an interview in Berlingske Tidende.)
The film was not very successful, and critics mostly panned it.Richard Roeper called the film "like Kubrick with a talent-ectomy" and Jack Matthews of the New York Daily News declared that "Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it". Dennis Lim of the Village Voice, however found something to like in the film:
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