Fresh
Death in Love is occasionally pretentious but always riveting.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
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Death in Love
Overview
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.
Director and cast
- Boaz Yakin Director
- Josh Lucas as Elder Son
- Jacqueline Bisset as Mother
- Adam Brody as Talent Agent
- Morena Baccarin as Beautiful Woman
- Lukas Haas as Youngest Son
- Emma Bell as Young Girl
- Betty Gilpin as Young Model
- Vanessa Kai as Asian Woman
- Carrington Vilmont as The Doctor
- Jean Brassard as Young Girl's Father
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
45%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Yakin and his cast are up to the job, but the current they tap into is so charged it proves overpowering. Still, their bravery is commendable.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
There's something seriously wrong when you assemble actors this good -- and can't believe a single stilted word coming out of their mouths.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
How do you explain a movie as hermetic and perverse and ultimately repugnant as Death in Love?
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
It's not as if we learn anything or feel any insight or catharsis from watching his characters destroy themselves and others.
Christy Lemire, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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