Love in the Time of Money

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, executive produced by Robert Redford, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 11, 2002. It had a limited release in the United States on November 1, 2002.

Love in the Time of Money
Official DVD cover
Directed byPeter Mattei
Written byPeter Mattei
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStephen Kazmierski
Edited byMyron I. Kerstein
Music byTheodore Shapiro
Production
companies
  • Blow Up Pictures
  • Open City Films
  • Sagittaire Films
Distributed by
  • Blow Up Pictures
  • ContentFilm International
  • ThinkFilm
Release dates
  • January 11, 2002 (2002-01-11) (Sundance)
  • November 1, 2002 (2002-11-01) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$10,410[1]

Production began in New York City on January 29, 2000.[2]

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

Reception

Critical response

The film received a mostly negative response from film critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 18% approval rating, based on 39 critical reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10.[3] 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."[4]

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."[5]

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."[6]

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

References
  1. "Love in the Time of Money (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  2. "DAILY NEWS: Icebox.com and FOX, Blow Up and Redford; and IFC Goes North of the Border". IndieWire. January 29, 2000.
  3. "Love in the Time of Money (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  4. Scott, A. O. (November 1, 2002). "Film in Review – Love in the Time of Money (2002)". The New York Times.
  5. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (November 6, 2002). "Love in the Time of Money (2002)". Entertainment Weekly.
  6. Byrge, Duane (August 21, 2002). "Love in the Time of Money (2002)". The Hollywood Reporter.
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