Love Film Festival

2014
6.3| 1h40m| en
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Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
euroGary One often hears that something is "a good festival film" (which usually means it hasn't much chance of making any money at the box office); 'Love Film Festival' is a film about film festivals, and specifically a romance played out against several of them.Brazilian director Luzia meets Colombian actor Adrián at a festival in Oporto and the pair seem smitten with each other. But when we next meet them, one year later at another festival, they have developed "history": in the intervening period Luzia visited Adrián in Colombia but he was too caught up with his film-making - and with his clingy ex-girlfriend - to pay her much attention. From then on their relationship undergoes a full soap opera's-worth of betrayals, tantrums and forgiveness.Someone in the film calls Luzia and Adrián "a beautiful couple", and certainly as played by Leandra Leal and Manolo Cardona they're easy on the eye. But they're not easy to like: both playing around behind their respective partners' backs and - reinforcing the soap opera theme - what Adrián later does to Luzia would cause a rare old ding-dong in the Queen Vic. It's hard to sustain interest in a film when you're not that bothered by the main characters (and, indeed, at least two people walked out of the 2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival screening I attended). The stilted dialogue doesn't help matters, although that may be down to the translation.On the other hand, the four (count 'em!) directors deserve credit for delivering their segments in such a way that the different styles are not jarringly noticeable (an awkwardly-staged argument between Luzia and her boyfriend aside). I'd file this film under "worth seeing once".