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United States, Italy, Hong Kong · 2004
Rated R · 1h 44m
Director Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng, Robert Downey Jr.
Genre Drama, Romance
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A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Lovely though it is to look at, it does not reveal very much. Sampling the works of three prominent directors in one sitting may be what gives anthology films like this one their appeal, but the experience is often more frustrating than fulfilling.
What might have been a cinephile's wet dream turns out instead to be seductive, stimulating and sodden, in that order, in the three-chapter reflection on love and desire.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
It doesn't seem like overstating things to say that Eros becomes steadily worse as it goes along.
A maddeningly uneven triptych.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Only one of the three episodes of the anthology film Eros delivers on the title's promise.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
For the invited filmmaker, the opportunity to make a statement is surely a thrill, but for the viewer - who can't pause indefinitely, as with a book, between stories - the focus-shifting is a demand.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Like most anthology films, this thematically linked trio of shorts is a mixed bag.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
The omnibus film usually saves its home run for the climax, but Eros begins with the best third, Wong Kar-wai's "The Hand."
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A classy triple shot of film erotica from three brilliant writer-directors.
It's a triptych of erotic-themed short films directed by contemporary giants Wong Kar-wai and Steven Soderbergh, and nonagenarian master Michelangelo Antonioni. But the auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment for the European "Red Shoe Diaries."
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