Love is a 2005 independent feature film, written, directed and edited by
Vladan Nikolic

Vladan Nikolic

Vladan Nikolic is a Serbian independent film director, screenwriter and film producer. His awards include the TV Sarajevo Award and Zeta Film Award for Best Screenplay, Telluride Indiefest Best Film Award, and Tiburon International Film Festival Golden Reel Award.Nikolic teaches film directing,...

, produced by Jim Stark

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 (Down by Law

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, Night on Earth

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, Factotum

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) and executive produced by Christoph Thoke

Christoph Thoke

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 (Tropical Malady

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). The film was made in New York City

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 for $350,000, with a cast and crew from over 20 countries, with 168 scenes, shot at over 60 locations. The film was shot on mini DV in 20 days, transferred to 35mm film, and received high praise in the September 2005 issue of American Cinematographer

American Cinematographer

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for its stylish look.

It impressed audiences and critics at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival

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, Venice Film Festival

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, and the Oldenburg Film Festival. Love also won the Prix De Jeunes at the Cinéma Tout Ecran

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 festival in Geneva, Switzerland. Critics compared the film to Pulp Fiction

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, Memento, Rashomon

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The bandit's storyTajōmaru, a notorious brigand , claims that he tricked the samurai to step off the mountain trail with him and look at a cache of ancient swords he discovered. In the grove he tied the samurai to a tree, then brought the woman there. She initially tried to defend herself with a...

, and in its political subtext to Marathon Man

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and Dirty Pretty Things

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(Variety

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).

Told through a non-linear narrative from each of the characters' points of view, the film reconstructs the stories of a Yugoslav hit man (Sergej Trifunovic), his former lover (Geno Lechner), and her police officer boyfriend (Peter Gevisser), as their paths cross in New York.