Title: Slow and pretentious
Product review: With a better developed script and a higher budget, Rodolphe Marconi's Defense d'aimer (Love Forbidden) could have been an interesting exploration of obsessive love and same-sex attraction between two supposedly straight men (Bruce, a French filmmaker, and Matteo, an Italian library intern). As it is, the film comes across as a amateurishly pretentious film with too many obvious symbols (especially statues and religious imagery), a really cheesy score that overly accentuates the obvious and an unjustified and abrupt ending.This is a French film, so its all about internal desires and not much sexual action takes place onscreen. The two male leads are cute, although the character of Mateo is not that interesting or good looking to justify the sickening devotion he inspires. There's only a brief sex scene, and a pretty tame one. The rest consists of longing glances between Bruce and Matteo.
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