Plot
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 6.4/10 (1,701 voted)
Critic's Score: 52/100
Director: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin
Storyline
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Cast: Aomi Muyock -
Electra
Karl Glusman -
Murphy
Klara Kristin -
Omi
Ugo Fox -
Gaspar
Juan Saavedra -
Julio
Aaron Pages -
Noe
Isabelle Nicou -
Nora
Benoît Debie -
Yuyo
Vincent Maraval -
Castel
Déborah Révy -
Paula
Xamira Zuloaga -
Lucile
Stella Rocha -
Mami
Omaima S. -
Victoire
Trivia: Gaspar Noé said that he did not direct the actors having sex or choreograph them. He said he just put them in their positions with respect to the camera and then say, "Okay, looks good, start the scene. Let's go." He added, "Once you put the people in the right positions it's okay. They know how to do it." See more »
User Review
Author:
Rating: 8/10
The script is laughable and the acting (often voice-over), too. The 3D
sex is well marketed. And yes, during certain scenes people got up and
left. Yet. The film doesn't argue to be anything beyond a meandering
stroll into the gallows melancholy. And it does this very very well.
The film features no highbrow intellectual conversations but instead,
favors the same lines you've probably slung at your lovers. Again and
again and again. Just like the sex you've had with your lovers again
and again and again. You know their bodies and you know how to please
them and above all, you know how to hurt them. Sorrow. There's a
resplendent simplicity here that hypnotizes the viewer.
You hear music banging inside the club, yet the lovers are outside in
halflight. Having sex, obviously. This is a good image of what this
film surprisingly achieves best: intimacy. And it fights for that with
it's magnificent camera-work and editing.
But what would this review be if it didn't talk about the 3D sex? Love
and cinema are inseparable. Love stories are why you stick glued to a
chair for a couple of hours. Raw sex is part of love, yet, films used
to cut to birds necking after a kiss. Then it became steamy windows.
Signs, metaphors, analogies, semiotic nausea. And here, Noé takes that
away which makes the film even coarser, and ultimately more brutal.
I wanted to write this review because the whole marketing ("finally a
love story restricted for -16) and shock value (an eye-rolling warning
in the opening credits) have cheapened what this film has achieved and
I encourage viewers to look beyond.
Storyline After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
Cast: Gunner Wright
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Captain Lee Miller
Corey Richardson
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General McClain
Bradley Horne
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Captain Lee Briggs
Nancy Stelle
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Russian Astronaut Woman
(as Nancy Stelmaszczyk)
Roger E. Fanter
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The Storyteller
Jesse Hotchkiss
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Skateboarder
Troy Mittleider
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Marine
Brid Caveney
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Retired Motorcycle Racer
Ambyr Childers
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American Astronaut Woman
B. Anthony Cohen
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Mission Control Chief
(as Tony Cohen)
James C. Burns
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Late Night Host
Lee Bettencourt
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General McClain's Gaurd
Mark Eaton
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Marine #1
/
Crater Soldier
Brian Vanik
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Marine #2
Dan Figur
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Marine #3
Taglines:
Have you ever felt alone?...What if you truly were?
Trivia:
Director William Eubank had never used a nail gun before building the set.
Quotes: Captain Lee Briggs:
[First lines]
They say, when you hear sounds of devils, all else is quiet. My general question to that is: how do you know that what you are hearing is the work of such devious beings? I would venture to say that most devilish noises occur when large numbers of men decide to force the hand of mortality upon one another...
User Review
Surprisingly Well Done.
Rating: 7/10
I think Angels & Airwaves has only gotten better with every record.
This film continues the upward trend. While it's not the best movie
ever and I have my issues with it, I think the fact that it is a
narrative film that stands on it's own with or without that band's
involvement is a real testament to the artistic creativity of this
band. This is not a visual interpretation of the record or some
completely avant garde piece -- it's a real film with the score done by
the band that produced it.
There are very few tongue-in-cheek references to Angels' song titles
and themes but where they are, they are appropriate and feel organic.
This film was made not to blatantly promote the band but to make a film
based on a story they wanted to tell. The music contributes to the
story best when the instrumental versions of the songs the fans know
the words to accompany the scene they are backing and vice versa.
This film is well shot, production value is high, visuals and sound are
stunning, and Gunnar Wright takes us through this space odyssey with
grace and poise with direction from freshman director Will Eubank.
I cannot wait to see the scenes that were cut and great the
commentaries on the DVD/Blu- Ray.
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