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During the question and answer session that followed the screening, Kechiche seemed to continuously avoid an analytical approach to the film. “I did not explicitly set out to give the film a sociological label,” he said. “I primarily wanted to tell a story around the themes that were important to me—theatre, first love, the energy of youth.” Kechiche added that the specific social milieu was due to autobiographical reasons, and that any sociological or political nuances the film might deliver have been subconscious from...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kechiche Shows Harvard Film Archive Some 'Love' | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Kechiche was more enthusiastic when discussing the purely aesthetic components of the film. For example, he gave a poetic explanation to his frequent use of close-ups, saying...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kechiche Shows Harvard Film Archive Some 'Love' | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...making the film, I found myself actually unable to move the camera backwards and open the frame. With each film I promised myself I will move it back, I will broaden the shot, but it has only gotten closer with each film...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kechiche Shows Harvard Film Archive Some 'Love' | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...time travelers of the film are four pathetic individuals, discontent with their boring and mediocre lives. There’s Adam (John Cusack), a sadsack insurance salesman who has just been left by his girlfriend; Jacob (Clark Duke), Adam’s nephew and asocial, geeky “Stargate” fanfiction author; Nick (Craig Robinson), a former musician who now dissects dog poop for a living; and Lou (Rob Corrdry), an alcoholic who Adam describes as “an asshole, but he’s our asshole...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...film centers on a nostalgic trip to a ski resort, where the group hopes to relive the bacchanalian days of their youth. “We were young, we had momentum,” laments Cusack’s character. Surprised to find the entire town rundown and decrepit, they console themselves with alcohol, drugs, and a mysterious hot tub. In the morning, they wake up in 1986, which the film recreates in painstaking detail. There are a number of funny references to Poison, “Miami Vice,” Jheri curls, Ronald Reagan, and when MTV actually...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Tub Time Machine | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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