Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

kafka20 OKi agree: it has several minutes with quite interesting/good ambient. Good photography, screenplay, actors, and so on. quite fascinating music, camera movement, and so on.mmm... tried to figure out how it would be without all that MONEY, without these fantastic actors, beautiful colors, music...and got nothing. Nothing at all.But, sure, you could do a really astonishing preview. all the rest... pretentious, naive...Enjoy...

pwiniarz I watched it and I could not make sense of any of it. He wants a divorce, she is career driven and does not want to be "replaced" but wants to stay married and committed to this man and wants to escape with him??? So confusing and all over the board! There is no point to this movie. It was written in 2 1/2 yrs? If that is true, the author never went back to review where his story was going before committing to a forward plot line! When he did, an eraser was not an option, but trying to explain it with another confusing plot twist was. Not worth the cellulose it was filmed on or the paper the script was printed on. The movie Sahara had better continuity and believability! Do not waste your time, enough people have already.

alan_wyper "It's All About Love" is without doubt one of the strangest films I've ever seen. Unfortunately, while some aspects are quite intriguing, the film as a whole turns out to be more pretentious than profound.Set in a near-future world plagued by highly unusual environmental phenomena, perhaps heralding a new ice age, the story takes James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis into the realms of psychological mysticism. For in this world, mankind's contribution to a changing climate does not derive from anything so prosaic as carbon emissions, but rather from an excess of human loneliness and alienation, and a corresponding absence of compassion and love. These same emotional shortcomings are also causing a spate of spontaneous deaths among the lonely and the loveless; so many in fact that pedestrians simply step over the bodies without a second glance.At the centre of the story are John Marshevsky (Joaquin Phoenix) and his champion figure skating wife, Elena (Claire Danes). As the film opens John is making a brief stopover in New York, where he is intending to finalise he and Elena's divorce. However, it soon transpires that Elena is in trouble. Her managers are plotting a very strange fate for her, and John is drawn in to helping her escape. In the process the couple find their love for each other is renewed.Unfortunately, the precise nature of the conspiracy surrounding Elena is underdeveloped, and not entirely convincing either, problems that afflict much of the rest of the film's plot too. Initially, it seems to be suggested that John and Elena's love is somehow pivotal to the world's climatic predicament, yet once their romance is rekindled it makes no discernible difference to the planet's descent into a deep freeze. There is also a seemingly superfluous story strand involving John's brother played by Sean Penn, who spends his entire time flying in planes around the world, providing a commentary on the changing climate.Nevertheless, the film does maintain a rather haunting, elegiac atmosphere throughout, which for the most part kept me engaged, even as the plot grew increasingly frustrating. It is a beautifully photographed film, and also benefits from an evocative use of sound.Yet in the end nothing can adequately compensate for the deficiencies of the story and script. Having suspended my disbelief in anticipation of seeing some answers, few were forthcoming and they were just not enough to cover the film's many bizarre conceits, not least the "flying Ugandans" (yes, you read it right). While I'm not someone who demands every nuance of plot or character be explained, this film definitely leaves far too many holes, and for that reason, although it is not without points of interest along the way, "It's All About Love" must ultimately be judged a failure.

Anahita We all want love after all. We want family bounds and people to rely on, friends who support us and stick with us when we are in trouble.This was all about love. The separation was a disease and Eleana (Clair Danes) who worked hard to gain a successful career as a ballerina, got weaker and weaker as the result of not having the love she desired in her life, the love of being a white bride, purity, youth and togetherness with someone she loved.... May be she realised it when it was too late, when she was no longer wanted by the media, corporations who made money out of her talent; when she felt she was missing that long wanted link, to be attached to someone she loved.When John (Joaquin Phoenix)came back to get his divorce paper signed, it was too late, her heart already was weak, the disease was in an advanced stage. She tried to cure it, she tried to quit her job, but the people who used her including her brother betrayed her behind her back.So from Eleana's point of view, all she wanted was her life and happiness back. From David and Arthur's point of views, it was all about making money, no matter how many lives would be ruined; they were using people as their business tools. But from John's point of view, it was all about love. You could see in his eyes when he was watching Eleana that how he cared and how he longed for her, and that was the reason he left, because he loved her and he wanted her happiness and success. And finally that was the reason he got involved in the end.The Ugandans were symbolic to my view, something in John's imagination... He saw them on television screens and when he was dying. He saw them attaching themselves near each other to the place they were born so that they stay as a family and not to separate, to keep love! The fact that John's brother lived in aeroplanes and always in the sky showed the result of this family dis-attachment and confirmed that even when people leave each other, they still think about each other all the time, in their isolation and they still try to make sense by keeping contact...At the end... we hear John's brother (Sean Penn) trying to communicate with John .... "You are probably somewhere in snow... you are probably somewhere sleeping." So deep inside family members have this connection and that is why by separating families and disconnecting people from love, the world is going to be a very cold place to be and people finish their lives in isolation and from a cold heart somewhere and this would become so natural that no one will care after all.This also proved that even when these four family members tried to get together at one point, they did not really make it and that killed John and Eleana. In distance Michael, Eleana's brother died in storm and John's brother was in a plane that could not land anywhere at all as everywhere was snowing... so he was going to die as well...Love is something that has to bound all of us humans together and if we are not connected, sooner or later, the life stops metaphorically and in this film symbolically.