Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- philosophical
- wistful
- intimate
- quiet evening
- arthouse movie night
What critics said
The film's substantial festival recognition suggests an ambitious, thematically focused independent romance built around questions of desire, marriage, myth, and fate.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Frank and Reyna's relationship is explicitly contrasted with the imagined myth of love and the search for an ideal partner.
Frank's affair with the younger Reyna is set against his fragile thirty-year marriage to Paula.
Two Irish construction workers dig for answers through the Tristan and Isolde legend while Frank, Reyna, and Paula confront love and fate.
The December New York setting presents several lives oriented around the shared chase for love.
Films like Love Is Not Love, and why
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
romantic drama examining fantasy, desire, and the strain between erotic longing and domestic commitment
Scenes from a Marriage
intimate relationship drama where idealized love collides with ordinary marriage and emotional responsibility
Certified Copy
literary, self-aware romance concerned with mythmaking, desire, and the difficulty of sustaining intimate bonds
Movie Details
- Director
- Stephen Keep Mills
- Release Date
- 2020-11-14
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Stephen Keep Mills
- Alejandra Gollas
- Louise Martin
- Tonya Cornelisse
- Russell Simpson
- Cameron Tagge
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Love Is Not Love about?
- In wintry New York, a married older man’s affair becomes a searching meditation on whether love is chosen, imagined, or inherited from myth.
- What is Love Is Not Love like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Love Is Not Love as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Love Is Not Love violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Love Is Not Love.
- What did critics think of Love Is Not Love?
- The film's substantial festival recognition suggests an ambitious, thematically focused independent romance built around questions of desire, marriage, myth, and fate.
- Which films are like Love Is Not Love?
- Films with a similar feel include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Scenes from a Marriage, and Certified Copy.
- How long is Love Is Not Love?
- Love Is Not Love runs 94 minutes.
- Where can I watch Love Is Not Love?
- In United States, Love Is Not Love is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
