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Notes on Love

1989 · 90 min

A slow, poetic drift through images and words, more like reading a dream than watching a story.

Directed by: Jørgen Leth
Genres: Documentary, Drama
Starring: Claus Nissen, Stina Ekblad, Jan Nowicki

Overview: Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as their first and final subject. For example, how a tropical island woman prepares for a meeting with her lover. The film was shot partly in the South Pacific with more than a nod to social anthropoliogist B. Malinowski's historical work The Sexual Life of Savages.

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Directed by: Jørgen Leth
Genres: Documentary, Drama
Starring: Claus Nissen, Stina Ekblad, Jan Nowicki

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
identity
memory
art
isolation
Places: sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	7
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: documentary, drama
Directed by: Jørgen Leth
Written by: Jørgen Leth
Starring: Claus Nissen, Stina Ekblad, Jan Nowicki, Anders Hove, Charlotte Sieling
Cinematography: Henning Camre
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Denmark
Languages: Danish

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