Movie Review for You I Love

Summary: Examining the increasingly liberal social attitudes of post-communist Russia, YOU I LOVE (YA LYUBLU TEBYA) concerns a bisexual love triangle amongst the young and wealthy in cosmopolitan Moscow. Vera and Tim are a power couple, making money and mingling among the elites of city society. But a year after their marriage, Vera returns home one day to find Tim in bed with Uloomji, a struggling member of Russia's Asian minority. The affair draws the trio into a situation where they must contend with the struggle between the values of two generations regarding sexuality, social class, and race. YOU I LOVE is the debut feature from directors Dimitry Troitsky and Olga Stolpovskaja.

                         Reviews of You I Love
By Achy Obejas of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            To say the epilogue strains credibility is a kindness. The filmmakers seem set on a happy ending,...

By Mario Tarradell of Dallas Morning News (7/0)
            The film comes off as little more than a shock-value exercise.

By Bill Gallo of Dallas Observer (6/1)
            The whole thing has a dour resolve that undermines its attempts at humor.

By David Noh of Film Journal International (7/0)
            The film is rife with 'off-hand' choppy editing, 'impromptu' camerawork and sudden bursts of ecce...

By Don Willmott of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            shows us a Russia we don’t often get to see

By Sheri Linden of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            Wavers between would-be satire and romantic drama, inhabiting neither mode convincingly.

                         Reviews of You I Love
By Eric Harrison of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
            The film starts as an entertaining postmodern take on bedroom farce but quickly becomes the kind ...

By S. James Wegg of JWR (7/0)
            Sizzling premise loses steam

By Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
            None of the performers leaves much of an impression...and the stylistic tricks, while visually in...

By Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Suggests that Russia is such a progressive society these days that homophobia can be treated in j...

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Rather trite and passe, not to mention overwrought and narratively chaotic...this is one 'Love' t...

By Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            The fault lies in an anemic script and misguided attempts by co-directors Olga Stolpovskaya and D...

                         Reviews of You I Love
By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            ...like an implausible, superficial knock-off of a Pedro Amolodovar flick.

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Seriously sexy stuff.

By Leslie Felperin of Variety (7/0)
            A clumsily drawn, poorly acted love triangle.

By Joshua Land of Village Voice (7/0)
            The film is most buoyant when most over-the-top.

By Anita Gates of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            It is official. Russia is now modern enough to deal with a romantic theme that Noël Coward t...

By Jordan Reed of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            A film with remarkably little to recommend it.

                         Reviews of You I Love
By Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (3/4) No reference
            What was intended as a breezy multiple romance gets swamped by editorial turbulence.

By Ella Taylor of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
            Though the progress of this ill-matched love triangle is fun to follow in its self-consciously wa...

By Peter Debruge of Miami Herald (3/4) No reference
            It's certainly no surprise that the best apology Timofei can manage for the heartbroken Vera invo...

By Robert Dominguez of New York Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Gay themes aside, it provides a revealing look at Russian society that U.S. audiences seldom see.

By V.A. Musetto of New York Post (3/4) No reference
            Stolpovskaya uses jump cuts, flashy graphics and cool techno music to paint a delightful portrait...

By Jan Stuart of Newsday (3/4) No reference
            Tepid Russian comedy.

                         Reviews of You I Love
By Carrie Rickey of Philadelphia Inquirer (3/4) No reference
            As a filmmaker, Stolpovskaya is a natural.

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (3/4) No reference
            The movie's choppy MTV-style edits seem to be covering up a lack of focus in the characters' moti...

By Laura Kelly of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            Stolpovskaya's story of bisexual desire does not hold up its narrative end.

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (6/1) Not Reachable
            The characters are likeable so you don't mind following them on their adventures, even when the d...

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