Love Forbidden
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Actor: Echo Danon, Hervé Brunon, Irene D'Agostino, Maria Teresa De Belis, Tomazo D'UlisiaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Love Forbidden
Movie Review: Hints of Alain Resnais
Summary: 4 Stars
Rodolphe Marconi is a young, talented filmmaker as LOVE FORBIDDEN (Defense d'Aimer) demonstrates. Marconi wrote the script, directed and is the principal actor in this dark but very sensitive melodrama. No, 'melodrama' may be the wrong word here, because 'film noir' seems to suggest its antecedents more clearly. Anyone who loves Resnais' "Last Year At Marienbad" will understand the comparison when viewing this extended meditation on obsession. Rome is the site for an Academy of students from all forms of the arts and the students are from many parts of the world. The film is shot in French, Italian , and English as each set of circumstances dictates. The main character is Bruce (Rodolphe Marconi), a loner of a film maker student who meets a few students as friends ('Orietta' played very well by Orietta Gianjorio) but encounters a 'boarder' Mateo (Andrea Necci) who works in the library and is a writer. Mateo manipulates Bruce into letting him use his 'better room condition' and ends up sharing Bruce's bed - platonically. Bruce becomes aware of his sexual feelings towards Mateo and eventually those feelings are reciprocated and acted out, only to have Mateo exit Bruce's room and life as abruptly as he entered. Mateo avoids Bruce, takes up with an American girl Aston (Echo Danon) and Bruce becomes so obsessed with his lost love that he begins to stalk Mateo. Eventually Bruce and Aston become friends and share frustrations with the self-indulgent Mateo and the end of the tale is at hand as a surprise. The filming is by video and I do not find that interfering in this case. The result is an intimate, secretive appearance to the story, allowing the camera to linger on nocturnal images, feel the ancient rhythms of Rome, and be a voyeur like Bruce. The music score is at times heavy handed (why choose Bach's 'St Matthew Passion' for the sensuous lovemaking between Bruce and Mateo?) and too often it covers the dialogue. Marconi is a fine actor and says more with his body language and eyes than with his words. In all, this is a dark, moody, but sensitive work that deserves more attention than it is receiving. Try it. The English subtitles are excellent.
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