Love the Hard Way

Love the Hard Way is an American film drama directed by Peter Sehr from the year 2001. Starring Adrien Brody.

Action

The small-time crook Jack is a member of a gang that cheating wealthy people. He likes to read books and dreams of a career as a writer.

One day he met the student at the Columbia University Claire that fascinates him. Also it exerts on the woman from a strong attraction. Jack is afraid of the committed relationship. When Claire away for a few weeks, Jack is cheating on her with Pamela and gets caught by the unexpected return of Claire.

Claire is thrown out of its orbit, it is dedicated to prostitution. Jack notes that he loves Claire. In one of the fraud Jack and his accomplice Charlie are arrested. You are sentenced to long prison sentences. Claire cuts her wrists, the police finds them and saves the last moment.

Jack gets into a fight in prison, he is seriously injured and later released on parole. Back in the freedom he meets up with Claire.

Reviews

" Tried filming a Chinese underground novel, which reproduces the criminal underworld of New York as a fictitious decal, emotional but not to convince white. Since the characterization of persons not convinced just a patch outsider myth is confirmed. "

Ty Burr praised at The Boston Globe July 11, 2003, the representation of Adrien Brody and criticized the play of Charlotte Ayanna and the final scenes of the film.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times 27 June 2003, Adrien Brody would be in the role of Jack very well cast, even better than in the role of Wladyslaw Szpilman in the movie The Pianist. The excesses to which Claire surrenders after breaking up with Jack, Ebert described as a self-punishment. He wrote that he would have expected more in a French film than in a U.S. strip. The portrayal of Pam Grier he criticized as weird and artificial, the film end up being unsuccessful.

Ulrich Behrens praised on the website www.filmstarts.de the representations of Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda and August Diehl and the screen presence of Pam Grier. He wrote that the film would have fascinated him.

Awards

Peter Sehr won the 2001 Silver Leopard at the International Locarno Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Leopard. He also won the Bavarian Film Prize 2002.

Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna won 2002 each have a price of French Festival International du Film d' Action et d' Aventure.

Screenplay Film score Guy Dufaux Chicago Sun-Times The Pianist (2002 film) Bavarian Film Awards Metacritic
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