Eros (2004)

Eros: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong. With Gong Li, Chen Chang, Feng Tien, Chun-Luk Chan. Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

“Antonioni is not able to direct a 30 min film. Why? The Dangerous Thread of Things deals with a couple trapped in a plain, tasteless life that are no longer able to observe, to feel, to digest the little, happy, natural elements of their lives.What Antonioni wants to show here is that women are passionate, wild , instinctual. Their nudity is not erotic, itu0026#39;s a kind of natural nudity, the original nudity of people lacking shame.Dancing naked on the beach is a kind of Dyonisiac ritual Nietzsche was talking about, the primitive, joyful way of celebrating life. The ideas are nice, he tried to do something great , but he didnu0026#39;t manage because there was not enough time to construct the characters, to make them mean something so by the end of the film we are left with a feeling of dizziness.On the other hand, i didnu0026#39;t like Soderberghu0026#39;s segment at all maybe because i didnu0026#39;t understand it or maybe Iu0026#39;m trying to get in deep where there is only the surface.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway, Kar-Waiu0026#39;s segment was the best of all three, absolutely wonderful. The story is rather sad(all Kar Waiu0026#39;s characters are melancholic) but the way he works with the camera and the music perfectly combined with the images proves what a great director he is. The scene in which the weaving of the dress is associated with lust, with the wish to penetrate both the mind and the womanu0026#39;s body, well thatu0026#39;s Eros, thatu0026#39;s how eroticism should be introduced in cinema. Kar Wai proves to be a great tale-or again.”