Eros

Eros (2004)

Three visionary directors. One erotic journey.

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Date of release
2004-12-03
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (153)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai

Casting

Interesting facts

Eros is a 2004 anthology film consisting of three short segments: The Hand directed by Wong Kar-wai in Mandarin, Equilibrium by Steven Soderbergh in English, and The Dangerous Thread of Things by Michelangelo Antonioni in Italian. Each segment addresses the themes of love and sex.

Production

After having produced Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds in 1995, France-based producer Stéphane Tchalgadjieff came up with the idea of doing a trilogy with "eros" as the subject, with one segment directed by the Italian director. The concept was to have two major younger directors, who have been on record to say that they have been influenced by his filmmaking, accompany him. Each would do a segment in total freedom, unaware of the other two.

After Antonioni's approval, production development on Eros officially began in 2001: after discussing possible directors, the group of producers selected Wong Kar-wai and Pedro Almodóvar to helm the other two short films. During the Italian press tour for Talk to Her in March 2002, Almodóvar declared to be "happy, thrilled and honored to share a film with a master like Antonioni" Wong Kar-wai, for his part, said that the Italian director "had bee…

Almodóvar was supposed to start pre-production and location scouting in early April 2002, on a screenplay based on the sexual initiation of an 8-year-old boy. After several delays in finishing the script and being pressed for time as the production of his film Bad Education approached, he was forced to withdraw.

During an event to celebrate Antonioni's 90th birthday in September 2002, his wife Enrica announced that Almodóvar had left the project and would be replaced by Steven Soderbergh. It was also announced that the Spanish director was in talks to create the interstitial segment that would link the three parts of the film together.

Soderbergh declared that he had accepted the job because he simply wanted his name "on a poster with Michelangelo Antonioni's".

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