PolarisDiB
26Apr12
Indeed.
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PolarisDiB
26Apr12
If Suicide Club & Noriko's Dinner Table were one movie with religion as the medium of cult and obsession instead of pop media, you'd have this movie. Some parts are Kubrick-like in a weird way (music, maybe?), and it would be great if only Yu was intelligent enough to use his cellphone to prove to Yoko who he was. Nevertheless, Sono delivers. --PolarisDiB
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Eduardo Watanabe
18Apr12
!!!!!! Bizarro, doentio, triste, engraçado e bonito! Tudo ao mesmo tempo hahaha muito bom, 4/5* O único problema é ver 3h50 de filme, mas dividindo em 2 ou 3 partes pra não cansar, como um livro, vale a pena!
Johnny DuBiel
8Mar12
For its four hour running time, it moves briskly and doesn't ever hit a lull... An individual experience, it will leave its viewer possibly overwhelmed with its idea. I can't recall another recent movie with as many memorable single sequences and images...
Risya
27Jan12
This film exposed the alienated youths theme of taboo subjects in Japanese and/or modern society. But for the overall of the film, I can't make up my mind whether its actually good or bad. It's refreshing, strange, provocative, but I couldn't stand it at times as it's quite an exhausting ride. Although so, it makes a lasting impression! And I have to give it some credit for being so wildly ambitious and unlike anything that's been done before. Also for its pacing, despite my occasional boredom towards it, this film through its entire almost-4 hours running time actually moves quicker than most 2-hour films out today.
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Mr. Arkadin
17Jan12
What a deeply weird, deeply perverse film. And not just perverse for the obvious reasons—the King of Perverts subplot—but for a more profound, emotional perversity that so many of the characters engage in (or are subjected to; a theme so often found in his films). Plus the extreme desire to belong, be loved, show love, culminating in the longest reading/explication of 1 Corinthians 13 that I can remember on film.
HKFanatic
23Dec11
When viewers said this was a 4 hour movie that flew right by, I honestly thought they were full of it. But "Love Exposure" is indeed a masterpiece that feels about as half as long as its runtime. Sion Sono's exploration of love, Christianity, upskirt photography, and awkward erections is the most immersive viewing experience I've had since "Enter the Void." Very Japanese, potentially offensive, but highly recommended
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Sergi Mari
1Oct11
One of the best movies I have ever seen, really. It lasted 4 hours and I wanted 4 more!
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Jake Cole
4Aug11
I haven't seen a film that serves as its own aesthetic revolution and collapse like this since EROS + MASSACRE. Like that film, LOVE EXPOSURE chews up and spits out everything through de-centered, off-kilter framing. Also like that film, sex and philosophy (or in this case, theology), dominates all, a reminder that desire drives the most daring rebellions. Mad, sloppy, epic, small and beautiful, all at once.
Kenrick Block
23Jul11
Even after several rewatches this film is still the most entertaining, exciting, thought provoking, unique, inspired, inspiring, defying, complex, calculated, fluid, fun, liberating, packed, pleasureful, and honest film I have ever seen. Sion Sono's Love Exposure is the ultimate love letter to the human being and what one can achieve with love in their heart.
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Amy
25Jun11
I'm about to re-watch this and reassess whether or not I should add this to my favorite films list. LOL
Polyglot
3Jun11
The longest film I’ve ever seen. It was worth it. Now, if you will excuse me, I’m going to go put my head into a bucket of ice water.
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G.T. De Fontenoy died for us
15May11
this was a spectacular film and if you are any where near LA you have to get down to the silent movie theater and watch it for this weeks run if you dont you must be some sort of clown
Zach Lyons
10Mar11
Pure motherfucking magic. Its not polished and its not masterful in the sense that one thinks of while thinking of people like Kubrick or Kurosawa, but damn, is this movie original and entertaining. Its like a breath of fresh air when a director makes you feel like you're watching something you have REALLY never seen before. When a filmmaker makes 4 1/2 hours seem short, you know he has you in the palm of his hand.
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Slowart
25Dec10
without even a tiny bit of insight this hot 4-hour cocktail of a movie with god-knows-how-many-chapters and a complex novel structure has many inventive twists, memorable scenes and can boast such straightforwardness, which is nowhere to be found in the 21st centuy filmmaking, soaked in angry cynicism / anyway without corinthians and beethoven it might have been a 4-hour failure who knows
