Gaspar Noé's new 3D porn film entitled Love, aside from boasting a particularly lively sequence involving a specific type of discharge supposedly aimed directly at the audience, can now add First 3D Porn Film to Ever Play Cannes to its growing bulge of accomplishments. Noé, of course, is no stranger to the parallels between art and controversy. His 2002 film Irréversible, which competed during that year's Cannes Film Festival, follows two men on their journey to attain revenge following the brutal rape of a young woman. Noé is also known for his psychedelic Tokyo experiment Enter the Void, an equally divisive 2009 film which recently served as noticeable inspiration on the new A$AP Rocky video for "L$D," directed by Rocky and Dexter Navy.
Love, according to Noé himself, explores the concept of love "from a sexual stance." As Deadline reports, the film is short on story and was shot using a tediously concise seven-page script — meaning much of the film's moments involving a passionate three-way are likely improvised. Shot entirely in Paris, Love stars American actor Karl Glusman alongside France's own Aomi Muyock and Klara Kristin.
Larger release plans will reportedly not be contingent upon altered or otherwise censored versions of the film, as Alchemy — the company behind Love's U.S. distribution — "have absolutely no intention of presenting anything less than the vision of the filmmaker." The film's official synopsis, reprinted below via Indiewire, successfully adds sexual urgency to the art of ellipses.
January the 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra’s mother, sick with worry, wants to know whether he has heard from her daughter. Electra’s been missing for a long time. She's afraid something really bad has happened to her. Over the course of a long rainy day, Murphy finds himself alone in his apartment, reminiscing about the greatest love affair of his life, his two years with Electra. A burning passion full of promises, games, excesses and mistakes…
