Love 3D
"The initial idea was to depict the love life of a 25-year-old film student, with all the excesses linked to partying, alcohol, and other excesses. It was also about the vows and promises that are broken, because life makes it impossible to keep them. The goal wasn't to make a transgressive film, but rather a film that shows the reality of romantic passion. Few films depict sexual passion in a romantic context." GN
"The image of the phallus is still frightening. It has a completely anachronistic and schizophrenic side, in the age of the Internet where porn is accessible everywhere and to everyone. We live in a society where the representation of violence is much more tolerated than the representation of sexual relations between consenting people. Yet, when people make love, it releases endorphins and serotonin that make them happy: we should value sexual relations!" GN
"The subjects of my films are organic, because they deal with visceral impulses: survival, the desire for reproduction or revenge… Furthermore, since I have an artistic background (my father is a painter), perhaps I'm a formalist in the sense that, for me, the central question is how to approach a subject that's already been explored many times without it resembling a documentary. I adopt formal choices that seem appropriate to the film because they will create a certain type of emotion. For example, a film shot in a single take, like Irreversible, will convey a greater sense of truth. I also like shooting in single takes because it allows the actors to settle into the setting and the situation. For Love, as for Enter the Void, I also shot in single takes, but by doing several takes of the entire action, to give myself the option of cutting them in the editing room, and using the middle of the first take, the beginning of the third, etc." GN
