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It's the latest from James Toback and you know what that means: Lots of
talking, a really swank loft apartment in Manhattan, Central Park orgies,
weird cameos (Mike Tyson, Lori Singer, Damon Dash) and plenty of sex scenes
featuring love being delivered from behind. Neve Campbell renders and
receives the aforementioned romance (sadly, the girl-girl scene with Joelle
Carter is short and relatively skin-free).
Neve's Vera is the daughter of wealthy parents who have set her up in a
ridiculously nice loft despite their objections to boyfriend Ford (Fred
Weller), a fast talking street hustler. We don't know they're in a
relationship immediately, as Toback shows them separately and uses
contrasting music to tell both of their stories (Vera: Classical; Ford:
Hip-hop). Things eventually end up in an Indecent Proposal situation, where
Ford essentially pimps Vera out to a wealthy Italian count (Dominic
Chianese) so he can turn a quick buck. I mean, it's not like Vera needs the
money, right?
I dug Toback's Two Girls and a Guy, but he lost me with Black and White.
Loved is a step in the right direction, but it still plays like a film made
by an aging writer-director who is still trying to prove he's hip. Instead,
it comes off as Larry Clark-Lite ®, with the sex included and glorified just
to be titillating. Campbell's performance is the type that people will call
"brave" because she spends a lot of screen minutes in the buff, and has the
aforementioned girl-girl scene. It's too bad she's wasted in such a middling
picture.
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