French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter The Void) continues to push the envelope with his most outrageous film yet: a 3D melodrama and no-holds-barred exploration of love featuring explicit, unsimulated sex.

Aspiring filmmaker Murphy (Karl Glusman) lives with his girlfriend Omi (Klara Kristin) and their unexpected child while harbouring deep fantasies about Electra (Aomi Muyock), the woman he left behind). As he revisits the erotically charged memories of their young, reckless love, he must come to terms with the damage wreaked by lust and the signs that led to their downfall.

Brash, bold, and impossibly honest, Noé’s ultimate goal is to declare that love and sex are one and the same. While, yes, there is lots and lots of sex between Murphy, Electra, Omi and indeed a reasonable number of other configurations - and there are some shockingly explicitly moments, these give way to a revealing examination of the nature of love and its physical expression. But, for all Love (3D)s explicitness, enfant terrible Noé has ironically made his most romantic film yet showing how sex is a vital part of how human beings connect. It feels like a radically intimate mission - and by the time the credits roll, we guarantee that one of the last film taboos will feel like the most natural thing in the world.

Warning: This film contains sequences of flashing lights which may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy.

• The screening of Love 3D on Tue 24 Nov is part of our Cinébites deal: Get 30% off any main dish in the Café/Bar with a valid cinema ticket.

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