Review
Death in Love is an intense drama set in New York City- exploring the ways in which a young Jewish woman's love affair with the doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp has shaped the emotional lives of her two sons many years later. Set in the 1990's, parallel stories unfold revealing their tortured emotional and sexual lives, as her sons struggle against becoming emotional casualties of their Mother's past. Josh Lucas plays the eldest son, who battles his sense of disconnection from life while working at a scam modeling agency run by his Asian lover, with whom he is involved in a masochistic sexual relationship. It's at the agency that he befriends a charming young co-worker, played by Adam Brody, who begins to restore in him a sense of excitement and purpose. Lukas Haas plays the younger son, who is locked in a compulsive, co-dependent relationship with their Mother, portrayed by Jacqueline Bisset. All these stories converge when Mother's former lover reappears to reclaim her love once and for all. "Death in Love" is a piercing exploration of the effects of choices made by one generation on the next; a frank and powerful depiction of the erotic allure of human destructiveness and emotional repression, and the desperate search for meaning in a world of random cruelty and pain. |
