The film depicts the devastating legacy of a liaison between a concentration camp inmate and a Nazi doctor reflects on the lives of her sons whom the doctor experimented on.
How do you explain a movie as hermetic and perverse and ultimately repugnant as Death in Love?
New York Press
July 15, 2009
The failure of the movie is hardly attributable to Lucas, or co-stars Jacqueline Bisset and Lukas Haas. I'm afraid the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of writer-director Boaz Yakin.
Even as the frustrated audience can already see the truths, secrets, and manipulations congeal around the characters, they seem impotent to stop being victims.
A strangely indulgent and highly personal film seemingly crafted less as a piece of entertainment than a work of expression from an increasingly conflicted artist.
