A Brilliant Conflict

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"Loveless" - an excellent psychological thriller, in which the tension increases with each shot. Characters are simple and understandable, and the emotional response is huge. Acting game (especially Matvei Novikov) is beautiful. Andrey Zvyagintsev made a very tough film that literally squeezes you out like a sponge in the first 20 minutes (not least because of the acting). But what is especially cool is how "Loveless" beautifully shot. Amazing work with light, perfect and perfectionist staging of each frame and amazing cold Scandinavian color correction. Of the minuses, it's a bit of an under-twisted ending and climax to my taste. As a result, "Loveless" is a great movie and one of the best for 2017.

12 years old boy found himself in loosing his world. Family ruined and turned ugly, none of the parents wanted him and saw him as an obstacle, trying to get rid of him and how many problems he created in their lives. Nowhere to go, nobody in the world cared about him. Did he took his own life to set them all free?

"I think I've made a terrible mistake." Zehyna (Maryana Spivak)She may have had more than one mistake, but the one that propels the grief of Loveless is being a mother. Hence the title. Writer Director Andrey Zvyagintsev creates a dramatic story of such pathos and regret that it's no surprise when Maryana and Boris's 12 year old son disappears probably due to their egregious neglect and arguing about getting a divorce within his earshot. Like the son, we'd leave that depressing situation except that the story leads us wanting to see if they find the son and if the search brings the couple back together. All this happens while the cinematography features the beautifully bleak Russian landscape and decaying buildings. The metaphor for their failed marriage has equal partnership with the chillingly lovely winter scape.I don't know for sure, but Loveless not only captures a couple so detached from love of their partners and their child, it also comments on the separation of the Ukraine and the notoriously chilling Russian life divorced from the high-profile comfort of Vladimir Putin's oligarchy, where the commoners search for love that does not comfortably occupy their hearths.Yet in the end this is not a story just about Russia; it is about all the fragmented, tortured relationships in the world that spawn children who have managed to get in the way of the solipsistic lifestyle contemporary millennials seem to desire. This film does not torture you with the lonely life of contemporary bourgeoisie; it rather suggests a fragmented future of self-centered couples, and I forgot to mention the motif of spouses on 24/7 with their smart phones. That is depressing. Although it doesn't look good for us in the future, Loveless's nomination for Oscar's best foreign language film has an enviable artistic future. If you think of Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, Antonioni's L'Avventura, or Haneke's Hidden, you're right in Loveless territory. Not a bad convention, I think.

Well I can see why it was nominated for best foreign language picture at the Oscars but it was not my fav to win (Neither was A Fantastic Woman, which actually won)Loveless is about a couple about to Divorce who...do not love each other. Then their son goes missing in the process.The movie is very very real. Loveless does nothing to be over dramatic with the story. So down to Earth, and it that tone it's scary how selfish people can be. Personally my favorite part was the cinematography, but I'm a sucker for films shot in the winter time.It's amazing how entertaining the film can be without any usual bells and whistles like music or over acting to make the film seem better. Just so good without it.