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LOVETURE

Alma Har'el
  • USA
  • 2016
  • 82min
  • DCP
  • Color
  • Asian Premiere
Global Vision

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Synopsis

The director meets three couples at different stages of their lives and relationships to discover the movements, more than the meaning, of true love. Using nonfactors to act out significant moments of their pasts and play out possible versions of their futures, LOVETRUE is an ode to the beautiful potential of partnership, and a challenging confrontation of its complexities. It is a journey that offers profound insight into our common quest to find love and how we redefine its meaning as we grow.

Director

  • Alma Har'el
    Sigur Rós: Fjögur píanó (2012)
    Bombay Beach (2011)
    Paul Smith: The Reddest Herring (2008)

Review

Everyone is born and dies. We can put ‘loved’ between ‘born’ and ‘dies’ or ‘while loves’ at the end of the sentence. When we love, we ‘believe’ in love. Everyone in love ‘dreams’ about this love is eternal. However, the reality breaks our belief and hope, what we hope for love remains as ‘we loved’, ‘although we loved’, ‘since we loved’ or ‘because we love.’
Beautiful and poetic LOVETRUE directed by Alma Har’el explores and reflects the myth of true love with three stories. Crossing a border between performance and documentary, these aesthetic videos were shot in Alaska, Hawaii, and New York. As actual people act their past and present, the director tries to see the lasting relationship after romantic love, what’s behind the love and truth of life.
There is saying ‘love’ is not a noun but a verb. Love is not a fixed or metaphysical idea but changes as time goes like water flows. Therefore, love is always in the present tense toward the future, not in a completed form. Life must not stop. We should suffer from love and grow.
At the end of the film, narration says “So faith, Hope, and love: These Three Remain. But the greatest of these is love.” In our incomplete life, true love may be a mere fantasy. But love becomes eternal when we fall in love, therefore it is true. [Hong Jae-hui]

Credits

  • Director, Cinematographer  Alma Har'el
  • Producer  Alma Har'el, Christopher Leggett, Rafael Marmor, Rhea Scott
  • Editor  Terry Yates, Alma Har’el
  • Music  Flying Lotus
  • Sound  Jonathan McHugh, Jonathan Zalben

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