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Love Forbidden

Love Forbidden (Défense d'aimer)

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  • France
  • 2002
  • · 96m

Director Rodolphe Marconi
Cast Rodolphe Marconi, Andrea Necci, Echo Danon, Hervé Brunon
Genre Drama

Rodolphe Marconi writes, directs, and stars in the coming-out drama Défense d'Aimer (Love Forbidden). Marconi plays Bruce, a young student from Paris who accepts a fellowship in Rome. He takes a flat at the Villa Medicis and writes full time. He eventually meets Italian native Matteo (Andrea Necci) and develops feelings for the man. However, Bruce is confused because Matteo also seems interested in the American student Irene (Irene D'Agostino). Love Forbidden premiered in the U.S. at the 2003 New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

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The Hollywood Reporter

Ultimately involves a highly contrived, melodramatic ending that wouldn't have been out of place in a '40s-era film noir.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

The result is rather like eavesdropping on a bright but painfully self-absorbed adolescent's secret thoughts: sometimes fascinating, other times just infuriating.

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The New York Times by Dave Kehr

A model French psychological drama in which very little action occurs but feelings and intuitions are documented with precision and discretion.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

Torpid, academic vanity project for helmer-thesp Rodolphe Marconi.

20

Village Voice

Cryptic, pseudo-poetic asides come across as merely pretentious: Repeated cutaways to statues will not make your film "Contempt," nor will fleeting references to serial killers make it "Don't Look Now."