Out of Love

The boundary between passionate love and destructive obsession proves to be very thin for Varya and Nikolai, a couple whose fiercely blossoming relationship is served up to us in raggedy ellipses. A playful story in which the culprit and victim, challenger and oppressor, continually swap places. When from his kitchen the cook Nikolai sees Varya sitting at the bar, it's love at first sight. The Greek woman with a Russian name and the Russian Nikolai find each other in an indefinable city. But the double entendre of the film title soon gets explained: the things we do out of love are not always loving. Where there is real love and passion, you can also hurt each other; and insecurity, exasperation and even violence await. (Cinemax)