You likely know by now whether a new Gaspar Noe film finds you fleeing from or toward its embrace. The director’s three previous features (I Stand Alone, Irreversible, Enter The Void) shout their twisted intentions across the screen from the outset, and immerse you in horror and anxiety like few others. His latest, the 3D drama Love, appeared to take the same route — imagination running wild as to his approach — but the end result is more a surprising, sensual film than an altogether provocative one.A photo posted by Love (@lovefilm3d) on Sep 25, 2015 at 10:46am PDT
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How did sound, such an important element in your films, factor into this one?The sound in Love is not as complex a sound editing structure as Irreversible or Enter The Void. The movie is almost like a musical — you know, there's one scene of dancing or singing, and then one scene of people talking. In this case, you have the dialog scenes, where much of it is improvised, and then one scene that is almost silent, of people making love with music on top. You hear the first note of a new song, and you think, "We're getting to something non-verbal."A photo posted by Love (@lovefilm3d) on Sep 27, 2015 at 9:29am PDT
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You use one title card outside of credits in the film, explaining “Murphy’s Law”. Is it right that you originally planned for more?There were title cards in the first draft or treatment that I had, but they were all definitions of love. Like, "Love is a mental disease" from Plato, or "Love is the most natural painkiller" from William Burroughs. I tried it and it seemed a bit, almost predictable. And also you kill a bit of the sentimentality of the movie. At the end we just left one title card in.If you play with written words on-screen, you have to do it in a very playful way. If it's just to make it look like a book, a chapter, it makes the whole movie seem literal. I like the playfulness of Godard in his early movies more than later, also because he was playing with typography more — A Woman is a Woman, Vivre Sa Vie, those early ones. When I started preparing this movie I watched all of his to see what was great in those movies that hadn't been done since.A photo posted by Love (@lovefilm3d) on Sep 24, 2015 at 12:14pm PDT
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What do you think is behind that separation between love and sex in film?A photo posted by Love (@lovefilm3d) on Oct 16, 2015 at 10:08am PDT
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