StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Justin Easton There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

madalina_roca Antonioni is not able to direct a 30 min film. Why? The Dangerous Thread of Things deals with a couple trapped in a plain, tasteless life that are no longer able to observe, to feel, to digest the little, happy, natural elements of their lives.What Antonioni wants to show here is that women are passionate, wild , instinctual. Their nudity is not erotic, it's a kind of natural nudity, the original nudity of people lacking shame.Dancing naked on the beach is a kind of Dyonisiac ritual Nietzsche was talking about, the primitive, joyful way of celebrating life. The ideas are nice, he tried to do something great , but he didn't manage because there was not enough time to construct the characters, to make them mean something so by the end of the film we are left with a feeling of dizziness.On the other hand, i didn't like Soderbergh's segment at all maybe because i didn't understand it or maybe I'm trying to get in deep where there is only the surface.Anyway, Kar-Wai's segment was the best of all three, absolutely wonderful. The story is rather sad(all Kar Wai's characters are melancholic) but the way he works with the camera and the music perfectly combined with the images proves what a great director he is. The scene in which the weaving of the dress is associated with lust, with the wish to penetrate both the mind and the woman's body, well that's Eros, that's how eroticism should be introduced in cinema. Kar Wai proves to be a great tale-or again.

Polaris_DiB The Hand--I've only seen "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" by Wong Kar-Wai, and this movie fits in well with both of them. Wong Kar Wai seems particular possessed with the idea of "Eros" as unrequited love... in all three of these movies exists two characters that love each other but cannot consummate it, in the latter two (2046 and this short film) the female sexually open but not entirely open to the true love of the male.Equilibrium--Steven Soderbergh takes Eros a little psychologically as a man describes a recurring dream to a distracted psychologist. It's a droll short film (my favorite shot is when the two characters sit on either side of the couch and both of them are shaking nervously, though neither notices the other doing so), but goes all over the place in terms of narrative (dream-within-a-dream, multiple uses of mise-en-scene to create different character spaces, etc.) and in the end doesn't really seem to be about the recurring dream at all. It's hard to say if this film really fits in with the theme.Il filo pericoloso delle cose--This is by far the most creative and the best produced of the three, though it still seems a bit more detached and un-passionate compared to The Hand. Antonioni shows three people (two women, one man) all in relationships that lack joy. Two of them hook up and enjoy sex and comfort from each other for an hour or so, but then they all separate. The two women meet at the end, and are set at stark contrast to the male-driven symbols of eros from the rest of the short and the previous two shorts.All in all, the three films are interesting and at times beautiful, though they are very different from each other. This difference is cool because it keeps the entire feature from seeing one-dimensional or sentimental, but it makes it difficult to see how the films fit together. I also notice that many people who've seen this film tend to react to it based on who their favorite of the directors are in it. This is true with me as well--for some reason, I just like Antonioni's film better than the others. My friend, a Wong Kar Wai fan, thought his was the best. It seems like the only people who are watching this movie are the ones familiar with who the directors are before it begins, so I'd like to see what someone who doesn't know any of them has to say about it.--PolarisDiB

Ted Michael Morgan Michelangelo Antonioni creates a small masterwork. Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar Wai, unfortunately, are not up to his standards. Still, one great work out of three efforts rewards the viewer The silence of Antonioni's work continues to echo the emptiness of our modern world. Behind the silence is that secret violence that shapes our lives. Soderbergh has declined a bit in his vision, but the old master retains lucidity and insight. The DVD is excellent. I recommend watching the Antonioni work first. Then put the DVD aside for a moment when you tire of commercial television and holiday parades and endless football scores. The non-Antonioni sections are worse than American football. Watching them will improve your appreciation of televised American football.

Galina "Eros" (2004) is the collection of three short films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose"), Steven Soderbergh (segment "Equilibrium") , and Kar Wai Wong (segment "The Hand"). Each film explores the always exiting and mysterious subjects of love, sexuality, and desire. My favorite is "The Hand" – a sensual, emotional, powerful and very sad story about a young tailor who put the years of unrequited love for a beautiful call girl in an exquisite dress he created for her. He knew the exact measurements from touch. This segment is so great that I am ready to buy a DVD just to be able to see it often. It is a brilliant work of art from one of the greatest working directors now.Steven Soderbergh's "Equilibrium" is a funny duet between two excellent actors, Alan Arkin as a voyeuristic shrink and Robert Downey Jr. as his patient who has a reoccurring dream about a beautiful woman.Michelangelo Antonioni's segment "Il filo pericoloso delle cose" aka "The Dangerous Thread of Things" has been called the weakest in the trio. Many posters call it garbage, the total waste of time, the soft –porn made by a man who "got old and got horny". I personally did not find it a waste of time and if the man at 92 wants to make a little film that celebrates beauty and femininity – so be it. I feel that Michelangelo's segment is much deeper than it seems - even on the surface it is very attractive to look at.