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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"Loveless" (2017 release from Russia; 127 min.) brings the story of Boris and Zhenya and their 12 yr. old son Alexey. As the movie opens, school les out and Alexey takes the long way home, through a nearby park. At home, we quickly learn that Zhenya and Boris are going through a bitter and antagonizing divorce. They argue relentlessly, all the while thinking Alexey doesn't hear them But he hears them all too well... Boris and Zhenya are already in new relationships. Then one day, Alexey doesn't come home from school. Where could he be? Can Boris and Zehnya patch their personal differences in looking for their son? To tell you more of the plot would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from Russian writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev, who previously brought us such excellent films like 2012's Oscar-nominated Leviathan, and 2011's Elena. In "Loveless", he goes a very different direction, examining modern day life in Moscow with its endless apartment buildings, and the correlating urban loneliness. The very bitter feelings between Boris and Zhenya are at times shocking, but feel very real. The two Russian actors playing the roles of Boris and Zhenya are unknown to me, but are nothing short of outstanding. I absolutely love how Zvyagintsev chooses a camera angle and setup, and then simply lets the scene unfold. Check the lunch scene between Boris and his co-worker, where they discuss their company's policy on divorce, all playing out over several minutes in a single take without any camera angle changes. The second half of the movie, focusing on the search for Alexey, is simply chilling and by the end of the movie I was emotionally spent. That is of course a dead giveaway that I was emotionally involved and invested in the movie, the sign of a top quality movie, "Loveless" was nominated at this year's Oscars for Best Foreign Language Movie, but did not win. I have now seen all 5 of the Oscar nominated movies in this category, and with all due respect to the Oscar winner "A Fantastic Woman", I have no doubt in my mind that "Loveless" is a better movie, and should've won. Alas, I am also quite certain that quite a few of the Oscar voters were turned off by the very bleak nature of "Loveless", in fact quite the opposite of "A Fantastic Woman". After the thinly-veiled criticism of the Russian authorities in "Leviathan", it came as no surprise that the Russian government refused any funding for "Loveless", so Zvyagintsev had to obtain funding from elsewhere (mostly Western Europe)."Loveless" premiered at last year's Cannes festival to immediate critical acclaim. It finally opened at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati this weekend, and I couldn't wait to see it. The Sunday early evening screening where I saw this at was attended dismally (4 people in total, including myself). That is a darn shame. Hopefully this movie will gain a wider audience as it gets distributed on various platforms. If you are in the mood for a devastating family drama movie that is nothing short of top-notch, I encourage you to check it out, be it in the theater (while you still can), on VOD, or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray.

It's a pity, when movies like that, they could be better and they stay in less. The movie is fine. The best, for me of the nominees in its category. But that beginning of several minutes without telling anything, landscapes and landscapes and not having taken more advantage of the child and a few moments, stops the film, make that being a movie that is good, do not get where you should have arrived.I've heard it many times and I'm sure that all that much also, that plane of the crying child is great. But it is also very well rolled. Not only has the child been crying, but also putting the mother in a part of the house to use to choreograph the child, following her with the camera. It is that it is very well thought out and realized. And seeing the boy with that face is brutal.It has a great picture. It can not be more frigid. Like the movie itself. It makes you cold. Sometimes it's too dark but great. It gets you not only in history, but also in that environment and civilization.The actors are great almost always. There is a moment that has disappointed me. When we see the father crying sitting and can not see his face, that scene, the actors fall, I do not know if the actor did not know how to do it or if the director has not been able to shoot it, but see an actor that is leaving the soul and record him without seeing him, it is a pity.There is too much sex in the movie. He does not paint anything and the sex scenes extend a lot. The director does not finish convincing me. I could have made a much better movie. He does not know how to always keep the rhythm of the movie. The movie is something distant. He does not know how to position the camera.Anyway, it's a movie to watch it

I think there's a really great film in here somewhere. Don't get me wrong, of course this film would never have been a "fun" one to watch. But even in its seriousness, there are a lot of flaws. I wish the film had been a little bit more linear and focused on the central storyline. It felt a little disjointed at times. The acting was fantastic, but it's also sometimes hard to really get to understand these characters. For the most part the film works though.

This oscar nominated movie (Foreign movie), is one of the deepest, darkest, picture I have seen this year. Starring foreign stars that proved how much unknown potential is out there and how much these actors even tho they aren't from the same continent should be judged equaly judged at the Oscars.The movie feels and is so real, it's actually terrying and hard to watch it. Loveless shows us what we human are capable of doing and how we human never really think and how we human express ourselves. It's some dark real story that really gets you and makes you feel about people diferently and shows you how dark and awful society can be. Loveless is a film that needs to be seen, it's needs to be shared! This is an unforgettable experience, and will really kill you inside after watching it! Prepare yourselves!