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2 days 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).
2 days 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.
2 days ago · The Nature of Love explores binaries like passion vs. companionship, beauty vs. intelligence, and realism vs. fantasy in relationships.; The film's intense emotional scenes and stylistic choices ...
2 days 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 ...
2 days ago · The story told in The Nature of Love is one in which Sophia (that’s Lépine-Blondeau), a philosophy professor living in Québec, has after ten years of marriage to Xavier (Francis-William Rhéaume) accepted the fact that their relationship has become merely companionable. Talking together is always stimulating (he is decidedly bookish) but they now sleep in separate beds.
2 days ago · Still, the feature is an amusingly self-aware romantic comedy and certainly a must-see for fans of French-Canadian cinema. Selina Sondermann The Nature of Love is released in select cinemas on 5 ...
5 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.
