interiors of Dara Wishingrad's production design are made even colder by cinematographer Frederick Jacobi's camera." They also made comparisons with Portnoy's Complaint for its sexual nature and with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross for its depiction of a confidence game. The film was praised by Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times "Yakin and his intrepid cast pull no punches portraying the film's many carnal encounters, filling the movie with a host of startling and powerful images." Goldstein continued to describe the film as "always riveting" and "one endurance test that's worth the effort." The New York Times was less favourable; ""Death in Love" burrows so deeply into the unconscious minds of its depressed New Yorkers that the movie seems to be mumbling to itself in a dream state, driven more by hazy Freudian logic than ordinary cause and effect. The words it murmurs are a litany of endless, futile self-recrimination." Awards Boston Film Festival Best Actress - Jacqueline Bisset (won) Best Director - Boaz Yakin (won) Jerusalem Film Festival Lia Van Leer award - (nominated) Ibiza International Film Festival (Falco d'Or) Best Script - Boaz Yakin (won) Best Actor - Josh Lucas (won) Best Actress - Jacqueline Bisset (won) Cast Main Josh Lucas as Eldest Son Jacqueline Bisset as the Mother Lukas Haas as Youngest Son Adam Brody as the Talent Agent Supporting Morena Baccarin as the Eldest Son's Girlfriend Emma Bell as the Young Girl Jean Brassard as Young Girl's Father Fabrizia Dal Farra as Concentration Camp Woman Francis Dumaurier as Old Lawyer Seth Fisher as Hotel Receptionist Kelli Giddish as Young Mother Betty Gilpin as Young Model Laura Holloway as Woman #1 Grace Nassar as Woman #2 Jamie Hurley as Woman Tending Child Vanessa Kai as Asian Woman Jacqueline Margolis as The Widow Elizabeth Newman as The Waitress Rich Odell as Agent Jeanne Omlor as Young Girl's Mother Stu Richel as the Father Nicholas Sireci as Young Brother Matt Walton as Young Father Carrington Vilmont as the Doctor References External links Holocaust films 2008 films 2000s erotic drama films 2000s erotic thriller films 2008 psychological thriller films American erotic drama films Films about Jews and Judaism American erotic thriller films Films directed by Boaz Yakin Films scored by Lesley Barber Films set in the 1940s Films set in 1993 Films set in New York City Films shot in New York City Films with screenplays by Boaz Yakin