Art of Love (DVD Movie)

Q is an agent of an underground organization called Art of Love. Under the guise of liberating love, Don Jim and his secret agents help suburban housewives cheat on their husbands. Don Jim forbids his agents from monogamous relationships in the name of free love. He demands of his agents only that they never, ever let a woman sleep over. One day, secret agent Q runs into M, a transient Korean girl. M develops a fever, and Q shelters her for a week. Through her cooking M seduces Q into a relationship, rendering Q conflicted between his love for M and his loyalty to Don Jim. In his quest for a meaningful life, agent Q is burdened with the decision to choose between free love and one love. Boasting a dash of Tarantino verve and a heaping helping of Chicago filmmaker Sugano's dry humor, Art of Love is shot entirely in Chicago --Gene Siskel Fim Center Gazette a lush and coherent visual language that is its own...Kubrick s influence is clear --Giles Morris, Gowesting.com Sugano's stylish oddity plays like someone in the projection booth mistakenly ran simultaneous prints of films by Wong Kar-wai, Quentin Tarantino and Hal Hartley... Sugano and cinematographer James B. Heck have a gift for composition and color --Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune About the Director Masahiro Sugano (Writer/Director/Editor) has not yet exceeded or overlooked his capacity to create regionally conscious works celebrating the diversity of Chicago s culture and the universal, humanizing condition influenced by his native Japan and beyond. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Masahiro Sugano s work has been featured as part of the Official Selection for the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Competition, awarded the First Place in shorts animation category by the Independent Film Project (IFP 2000), screened at every possible Asian American Film Festival venue. Masahiro s achievements include a 1997 Student Academy Award Nomination for his animated short Hisao. Most recently at the 2001 Ann Arbor Film Festival where he received an honorable mention for Super Kamada. See more