Love in the Time of Money

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Love in the Time of Money
Love in the Time of Money poster.jpg
Official DVD cover
Directed by Peter Mattei
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Written by Peter Mattei
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Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography Stephen Kazmierski
Edited by Myron I. Kerstein
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  • January 11, 2002 (2002-01-11) (Sundance)
  • November 1, 2002 (2002-11-01) (United States)
Running time
 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $10,410[1]

Love in the Time of Money is a 2002 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Mattei, and starring Steve Buscemi, Vera Farmiga, Rosario Dawson, Malcolm Gets, Jill Hennessy, and Adrian Grenier. The film had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 11, 2002, and was given a limited release in the United States on November 1, 2002.

Plot

New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.

Cast

Production

Principal photography took place in New York City, New York, USA.[2][3]

Reception

Critical response

The film received a mostly negative response from film critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 18% positive rating based on 40 critical reviews.[4] A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "Mr. Mattei's use of digital video, his fondness for extreme close-ups and his balky, fumbling dialogue were clearly meant to give Love in the Time of Money a rough, naturalistic feel. But those techniques only highlight the film's artificiality, making you gratingly aware of how much has been left out and how much of the drama is based on secondhand assumptions rather than genuine insight."[5]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "It's not about love. It's not about money. It's not even about sex, although the transaction of cold, love-starved sexual business propels the daisy-chain encounters that make up Love in the Time of Money. If anything, theater director Peter Mattei's dingy, mannered, visually ragged resetting of Max Ophuls' unimprovable 1950 beaut La Ronde (based on an 1896 play by Arthur Schnitzler) is about scenes of cap-A acting by a roundup of cap-I indie thespians, captured on brutally flat and blotchy cap-DV digital video."[6] Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life, the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine."[7]

Accolades

Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result
2002 Gotham Awards Open Palm Award Peter Mattei Nominated
2003 Casting Society of America Best Casting for a Feature Film – Independent Sheila Jaffe and Georgianne Walken Nominated

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