Film Review: Love 3D (18) (France/Belgium 2015) (Director: Gasper Noe) (English and French with English Subtitles), Filmhouse, Screen One, Edinburgh, Wednesday 18.11.2015, 20:30

I went to see this film solely upon the strength of the director's previous film, 2009's 'Enter The Void', one of my all time favourite films and if you have not seen this masterpiece, I cannot recommend this more highly. 

I was aware of the sexually explicit nature of this film, though this neither intrigued or put me off. 

This is monumentally dull film. Every element was tedious. The dialogue was numskullish in the extreme. The three central characters are completely unengaging, with the most central character being a misogynistic prick who spends the film very self-indulgently hankering after a past lover while being unable to appreciate what he has or his own agency in creating his circumstances. All of this echoes what I have subsequently heard some film critics say of the film.

Gasper Noe has commented that he sees the film as being sentimental, which suggests to me that he struggles to understand  how his produce may be received by normal viewers. I really have no time for what I understand to be Gasper's first two films, 'I Stand Alone' (1998) & 'Irreversible' (2002), and now having seen  his latest dirge I can only conclude that 'Enter The Void' was a fluke. I don't know after this whether I will allow him any more chances with new product. I cannot rate or recommend this film in any way.