If you’re looking for Love on Netflix, you’re going to be let down. Gaspard Noé’s controversial 2015 film has finally left the streaming service after over four years of shocking viewers with graphic sex scenes and inspiring challenges on TikTok. Now, it’s not like Netflix now has a shortage of shocking sex scenes on the service. After all, there’s that borderline porn boat scene in 365 DNI, the insane eroticism of Dark Desire, and an avalanche of super steamy stuff to watch on Netflix. However Love stood out because it was not only NSFW, but full of renegade artistry. Director Gaspar Noé’s POV is one of aggressive vision, and now that Love is off Netflix, the streaming service just got instantly less cool.
Love first premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it immediately developed a reputation for its explicit unsimulated sex scenes and 3D footage. The film follows a young man named Murphy (Karl Glusman) who finds his relationship with girlfriend Electra (Aomi Muyock) falling apart after the two have an impulsive threeway with pretty Danish teen Omi (Klara Kristin). Everything is fine until Murphy cheats on Electra with Omi. When Omi gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby, Murphy and Electra’s romance is shattered. When Murphy later learns that Electra has gone missing, he reflects on their relationship through a series of poignant and explicit flashbacks.
Besides being full of hardcore sex scenes, Love stands out because it’s packed with rebellious artistry. Whatever you think of his subject matter, there’s no doubt that Gaspar Noé can serve up some mind-bending visuals. He’s a director with a penchant for pushing the envelope when it comes to what you can show on screen – not just from a puritanical standpoint, but an artistic one. This is why Love sticks with you much longer than the borderline pornographic scenes in a film like 365 DNI. While that film was puerile and not particularly original, Love actually tries to be on the vanguard of something in filmmaking. Even if that’s opening a movie with a prolonged shot of lovers masturbating with each other.
Noé’s visual composition when his actors are fully clothed is pretty eye-popping, too. The film is full of images that will haunt you in both their radical simplicity and poetic angst. Whether we’re talking about the mirroring of couples or ending the film with a memory of the two separated lovers holding each other for dear life in a bathtub. Love is a button-pushing film, but it’s a film with perspective, at least.
It’s also the kind of film that you used to see a lot more of on Netflix. When Netflix launched, it’s library was a hodge podge of popular titles they could license and indie films that hadn’t necessarily made a dent on the box office. It was easier five years ago to find a filmmaker like Gaspard Noé on Netflix. That is, a filmmaker whose work was idiosyncratic and at times upsetting — and not ruled by an algorithm or awards chatter.
Granted, Netflix still has a robust slate of library titles that feel like they’re from off the beaten path, but they’re not as plentiful as they used to be. Nor is it as easy to stumble upon some hidden arthouse gem when Netflix itself is churning out milquetoast new movies on a weekly — nay, daily — basis. Love is a film that fits in on the Netflix of yore and not the service of today, full of data-driven crowd-pleasers.Love could return to Netflix sooner than we expect, but its absence is a loss for the service. It’s emblematic of an emerging issue in streaming: as studios make more and more decisions based on data over creative expression, those odd movies that stick with you will begin to disappear. Netflix used to be a treasure trove of quirky films that struggled to connect to theater audiences. Now its focus is on mainstream sensibilities and not the cool rebellious swings of a film like Love.
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