You won't be disappointed!

Absolutely Brilliant!

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I was talked into going to watch this movie by friends. Well what can I say. Two hours of my life I won't get back. Dull. Boring. Depressing. I read Imdb raving reviews before going to watch it and was bitterly disappointed. I didn't see any deep meaning or much intelligence in this movie. But saw a lot of unnecessary nudity which does not tie with the rest of the movie. To me it looked like the director was afraid that nobody will watch it without nude scenes. And possibly he was right. Another thing as Russian born woman I was insulted by the image of Russian women which was portrayed there. The main character was just a cold mega bitch, another female character was a pathetic needy damsel in distress, older lady was just plain bonkers. Main male character was bleak and boring. I didn't see any deep meaning just a very dull depressing movie with unsatisfying ending which leaves just one thought in your head: here is two hours of my life I will never get back.

Is there any English speaking versions of this movie .they all seem to be either Russian or French.

My wife and I frequently find ourselves wondering why so many people we know decided to even have children in the first place, so little priority do they give them in their lives. They act like children are a roadblock to all of these exciting things they would otherwise be doing, instead of recognizing them as exciting things in their own right and probably more likely to enrich their lives in ways that matter than any of the other endeavors these people seem so fixated on. But they don't recognize this, and as a result the kids suffer for it."Loveless" is a bleak and scathing indictment of this kind of modern-day parenting, a world of selfish adults pursuing their petty little enjoyments while ignoring the children they voluntarily brought into the world. It's a tough film to watch, though not as tough as I thought it would be. The little boy at the center of the story isn't in the film very long before he goes missing, so we're spared scenes of the misery he feels at home with a super bitch of a mom and a checked out dad. The couple of scenes we get are enough. Then, the film turns into a "L'Aventurra" like odyssey as the parents and authorities go looking for him. What makes the film tough to watch more than anything are the horrid characters that populate it. These people may have once been happy, and maybe have the potential to be happy again, but if so we see no signs of it. These are wretched souls who take their misery out on each other, and walking out of the movie theater after this film was over was like walking into the fresh air after being trapped in a dank crawl space. The film is claustrophobic in its nihilism.But, and this is a big "but," despite the above paragraph that makes this film sound like a chore to sit through, it's actually a wonderful movie and fascinating in a morbid kind of way. It's bleak to be sure, but people who are exhilarated by good film making can leave even a bleak movie on a high if it's done well, and this is one of those films.Nominated for a 2017 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film from Russia.Grade: A

Disclaimer: I am a Russian, although I have been out of the country for some years, I still visit every 2-3 years. I have watched all Zvyagintsev's movies, and this is his most political one yet.Yes, of course, it is a heart-wrenching portrayal of a broken family relationship and Zvyagintsev's ability to weave your emotions as a rope is superb. The political message is very well hidden and only becomes apparent during the last scene, when Zhenya (the wife) is shown two years after the event, in a new relationship, still unhappy, running unhappily on a treadmill, and wearing a tracksuit that prominently displays word "RUSSIA" on the chest. And that is the key.As events of the movie quietly unfold, you realize that Zhenya and Boris are not capable of sustaining any basic human relationship. They are unhappy in their existing relationship, but also quickly become unhappy in their new ones. Somehow, you just feel that both might be happier living on their own, but this is also not true, as evidenced by Zhenya's aging mother who is unhappily leaving alone in a house in the middle of nowhere without any desire to see her family members. So they are not happy alone, and they are not happy in a relationship because they don't appear to be able to sustain one for too long. And that is the reason for RUSSIA labeled tracksuit in the last scene. It is Russia as a country that is unhappy - being alone and isolated from the world. Russia is unhappy because it is incapable of sustaining any healthy relationship with anyone else. Using its neighbouring former republics as a shield from NATO? Manipulating regime in Syria to spite Americans and get a foothold in the Middle East? That wouldn't buy you much love. Can you name one country that Russia maintains a healthy relationship with on the basis of mutual trust and respect?There is a secondary political message too, as portrayed by the poor boy Alyosha. He is unhappy because his parents do not love him. Do you know who is really unhappy? The Russians. It is they who got no love from their country. I felt it while I grew up there and I can vouch that people still pretty much feel the same way even now. Russia does not love Russians. There I said it. Almost all political decisions are made in such a way as to benefit the country as a whole rather than the people. Civil service works in such a way as it becomes unclear whether it is serving you or it is you who is serving them. People are an expendable grey mass that is used to prop up the country. False sense of pride, bolstered by recent military victories, is used a poor substitute for genuine love and care. And you see this in the movie - when Alyosha runs away, the country does not want to spare a dime to find him, outsourcing all work to volunteers.But it is not all bleak. While Russians are unhappy because they got no love from their country, there is plenty of love to go around because if genuinely deep relationships with their fellow country people. Deeper relationships than I have seen in many other places I visited. Sometimes I feel a lack of deep friendships in the US is because nobody needs to rely on such relationships for survival as the country already takes such good care of its citizens. Russians do not have this luxury. And you again see this in the movie, portrayed by a volunteer group spending countless hours in rain and snow, looking for the boy and doing it entirely for free.