I Love Your Work

This review of I Love You Work was requested by Mike

I Love Your Work (2003)

Director: Adam Goldberg
Writer: Adrian Butchart and Adam Goldberg
Genre: Drama

The Story

Giovanni Ribisi is an actor having a difficult time dealing with the fame and fortune of his career. He is constantly looking over his shoulder and imagining thing that are not really happening; or are they? He becomes increasing paranoid about everything that is going on in his life and struggles to keep his relationship with his wife (Franka Potente) together. I Love Your Work explores the fears and paranoia of fame and the desires of the main character for another women and the jealousy that he has towards his wife. It sounds like a mouthful, but trust me the actual movie is a lot more confusing.

Everything Else

Adam Goldberg makes a dull first impression with I Love Your Work. I liked it and I didn’t like it at the same time. There were so many different things going on at once I dare say that it reminded me of a David Lynch flick, but then this didn’t have the graceful flow (not to mention reputation) to back it up. With that said though, it was a lot of fun to watch and giving it the benefit of the doubt I would say I Love Your Work was a strong directing effort by Goldberg.

The film is constantly changing colors and providing bright flashes of cameras mixed with dark and sometimes difficult to see images. This further confuses the viewer so that it is truly impossible to determine what actually happened in I Love Your Work. I think only a commentary viewing would shed some light, but I question whether Adam Goldberg really knows what happens in this movie. I guess that is what reminds me of David Lynch films; I wonder the entire time if David Lynch knows what is going on or if he is just trying to make a weird movie. Either way the film was interesting and kept my attention. The mystery holds you the whole time and even once it is over it would seem a second viewing could be in order (still unlikely to reveal exactly what happened). In the end the movie is completely up for interpretation.

The acting in I Love Your Work was good with plenty strong actors and actresses to round out the cast. Christina Ricci was good with her big eyes and calm acting. Franka Potente was great, although the blonde hair was more than distracting. Joshua Jackson provides another solid performance that will not get him more attention. He seems doomed to be stuck in the movies that are looking for that other guy to fill the gap. He will break out of his shell one day hopefully. Giovanni Ribisi continues to please me with his quirky acting. He just looks the part of someone who is frustrated and confused. In addition to that, his sudden outbursts and facial expressions were priceless in this one.

The Real Deal

Mike requested this review and actually provided the movie so that I could watch it. Thanks Mike; I enjoyed the movie and I am glad I got a chance to watch it. There is no question whether this one deserved the R rating with its constant language. The sex, violence, and drugs also helped give it the R Rating though. Overall I would recommend this one to those that are looking for a movie to leave you thinking at the end and one that has a few great moments in it. I found it to be funny and entertaining.

The Short Version

Raw Score: 703,302
Sharon Movie? No

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