Watch: New SFW Trailer For Gaspar Noe’s 3D ‘Love’ Mixes Romance, Three-Ways, Sex & Heartache

“Can you show me how tender you can be?”

It’s interesting that critics discussing French filmmaker Gaspar Noé's latest provocation “Love,” a daring sexual melodrama shot in 3D, always focus on all the sucking, fucking, three ways and stereoscopic money shots. It makes for good copy, and it’s certainly a big part of the film. But that’s really only half of a work which is also a melancholy meditation on past loves, is a little self-absorbed at times (Jessica Kiang breaks that down well in her review from Cannes) and which bespeaks genuine tenderness. It’s a hardcore movie, but in many ways it's provacateur Noé's most mature and possibly autobiographical film.

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Here’s the full synopsis:

January the 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra's mother, sick with...