Product Details

• Actors: Monica Belluci, Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Campan
• Directors: Bertrand Blier
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WMEE9E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,317 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "How Much Do You Love Me?" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 12/04/2007

Customer Reviews

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sultry Monica at her best!, December 11, 2007

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Derek "Theokritos" (Pittsburgh, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Much Do You Love Me? (DVD)

Checklist...Monica Bellucci main role (check), Monica intense kissing scene (check), Monica as a call girl (check), Monica nude (check), Monica sex scene (check), Monica in bed (check), Monica bellissima (check), Monica in Italian (check), Monica in French (check), Monica in love (check)...10/10

No seriously this is a interesting film where a man tries to buy Monica, and convince her to leave her life as a parisan escort and fall in love with him. It got its funny moments & intense moments,...needless to say the pimp boss doesn't like the idea...lol. Would you? One of Monica's newer film releases. I seen available versions in French, Italian & Spanish. I bought this while in Italia last year, the Italian version was called "Per Sesso o Per Amore"..simply translated "For Sex or For Love"

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "What Is Happiness?", December 5, 2007

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Brian E. Erland "Rainbow Sphinx" (Brea, CA - USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Much Do You Love Me? (DVD)

Note: French with English subtitles.

Synopsis: Francois (Bernard Campan), a lonely middle-aged man with a weak heart enters a bordello one evening with his eyes transfixed to one particular hooker. Her name is Daniela (Monica Bellucci). He claims to have won the lottery and offers Daniela a large sum of money if she would come and live with him. As the two strangers get to know each other soon their financial agreement takes on emotional consequences that neither could have suspected. Before long their entanglement grows to encompass Francois friends, neighbors and work acquaintances as well as people, some significant, from Daniela's past.

Critique: `How Much Do You Love Me' is a rather odd but enjoyable combination of erotica, romance and dark comedy rolled into one. While the viewer may find it difficult to decide exactly what genre the film is best suited for when all is said and done I would expect that they enjoyed watching. Monica Bellucci does what she does best as she subtly moves back and forth from sullen and smoldering to volcanic eruption. Bernard Campan also delivers a strong performance and there's also a small but memorable role played by one of France's finest actors, Gerard Depardieu.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Blier encore, April 21, 2008

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Keith W. Harvey "Keith Harvey" (Dallas, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Much Do You Love Me? (DVD)

If you see a Blier film, without being told it is Blier film, you will recognize it immediately. His cinematic vocabulary and his themes are unique. You know you will see a film about the struggle of men and women on a very fundamental level, usually played out in the bedroom. You know there will be beautiful women with semi-cretinous men, sporting half nude throughout the film. You know the men will have a buddy and that the buddy will have to share the woman in some way.

Blier is an auteur and a bit of a poet. You must view his films like a canvas or a poem. You cannot simply sit back and let the story unfold.

Blier is fascinated with sexual politics. He wants to study the shifts in power in the struggle of a couple. He is not a prude nor is he a moralist. He sees the male-female relationship as a power stuggle-the greater the struggle, the greater the passion.

Blier is a fetishist. He likes to linger on breasts, legs, hair, and coupling couples.

Blier is shocking and profane; he is also aware of the human comedy and comedic side of love and romance.

I find his movies entertaining and authentic, unique and disturbing. He is not for everyone.