One Of The Most Honest & Intelligent Movies About Love, Romance & Relationships

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2019)

As a man, I am obviously not a fan of romance movies like women are. The reasons why most men do not enjoy them are obvious, most of them are made for women, thus they pander to women and make the movies all too girly, and in addition they make them unintelligent and cliche and generic.
This movie is the opposite of all of that. While it is romantic in its use of artwork, it is not girly. It is a highly intelligent, sophisticated and brutally honest look at romance, love and relationships, the way we experience it in the real world of dating, not the way most hollywood movies portray.
Of course you need a film mastermind like Woody Allen to portray this. And this, to me as a film buff, is his masterpiece. I consider this to be his best film. It is so eloquently written and directed. Some films are works of art. But this is fine art.
And he couldn't do it without the all star cast he lines up for it however. Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz and Scarlette Johansen star in this film in some of the most lovable roles of their careers.
And this film goes where no other films dare to go, at least not seriously (some late night comedies do, but in a comical way, this of course is different). This film explores the very complicated concept of polyamory and its complex dynamics. That is dating multiple people at the same time. For in this film 3 women fall in love with the same man, each with a different type of relationship with him, and each other. As a social scientist this movie was a delightful exploration of the social dynamics in dating and relationships.
And the romantic artistic portrayal of the depth of these emotional situations and relationships and the complexity of it all is just so charming. Especially with the narration. But this movie is not just a feel good movie. It exposes all of the parts of love and these relationship dynamics that most of us people who believe in love, (especially us polyamorists who believe in it in abundance), do not like to talk about and face.
Through the characters having to process their own romantic feelings, it helps you to process them as well. Something most dumbed down romance movies just do not offer you. Nor do they offer you the level of art that this one does as well. So this is a movie that any Romance genre loving female will like, but which any intelligent man will enjoy as well.
In fact I believe this is the best romance film ever made. An easy 10. And a must see for any film lover.