I Love Your Work DVD: Review By jamesdickens

"I Love Your Work" attempts to offer insight into what it's like to be famous in the glamorous world of Hollywood. The film also looks at fame from a fans perspective. Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is an A-list movie star that believes that every fan is a potential stalker. Gray has not enjoyed the spoils of fame, he's rich but the man is miserable. His marriage to Mia is falling apart because he has some crazy notion that she's cheating on him .This is only but the beginning of Gray's downward spiral.

Some chance encounters with fans leads him to believe that he's being stalked. With a mental breakdown in full swing Gray ends up in a video store and becomes obsessed with the clerk (Joshua Jackson) and his girlfriend (Marisa Coughlan). Obsessed meaning that he begins to stalk them just like he claimed fans were stalking him. Gray doesn't stop there folks he also has an ex (Christina Ricci) that continues to obsess over. The couple and his girlfriend remind Gray of a simpler time before the money and fame took hold of his life.

"I Love Your Work" is the kind of movie that you'll either love or hate. I know that sounds really clich&#233 but trust me it really applies to this film. The film has an art-house feel to it, which is due to the films low budget and camerawork. After the first hour the Director (Adam Goldberg) goes buck wild with the camera and the plot. Some of you may see this as art, but others will see this as crazy. The acting is good, with Ribisi really holding it down and showing you a man that is truly conflicted. The material presented here is very dark and satirical. My problem with the movie is that at the end we never know the true mental state of the main character. Is he crazy, paranoid or what? At times Gray comes off as a whiny character who can't handle fame. Let me have his fame, if things get too crazy I'll pull a Dave Chappelle and be on the first plane to Africa. The film does offer some insight about the price that stars pay for fame, but unfortunately it gets lost in the shuffle. Some of you will be truly entertained and others will dismiss it as silly and pretentious. "I love Your Work" will divide people into the love it or hate it camp. The final verdict is that I don't love this work.

"I love Your Work" has an excellent commentary track with actor Giovanni Ribisi and director Adam Goldberg. The film is much better when you watch it with the commentary turned on. This DVD also contains a Music Gallery and a Trailer Gallery that you can check out.

This film is presented in 16X9 Widescreen. The picture quality is very good for a low budget feature.

This film can be heard in English Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo sound. The available subtitles are Spanish. This is a dialogue heavy film so most of the sound comes from the center channel. The surrounds and the subwoofer are put to little use.

The packaging is standard fair, a single disc contained in a standard DVD case. The picture on the front of the case shows Giovanni Ribisi on the cover looking delusional, holding a gun

"I love your Work" is strictly for fans of the art-house style of filmmaking. The story is too dark to invite the general viewing audience. You will either love this film or hate it.