Love (2012) Reviews

Eight lonely souls search for the companions that will make their lives complete in this ensemble drama set in Taipei and Beijing. The captain of her college cycling team and a devoted daughter who's never too busy to lend a hand at the family restaurant, Yi Jia finds her future getting complicated after learning she has gotten pregnant by her best friend's Ni's boyfriend Kai. As tempers flare and emotions run high, the expectant mother ponders terminating the pregnancy to avoid any further conflict. Meanwhile, Ni's father Lu wrestles with his commitment to glamorous actress Zoe Fang, who's currently embroiled in an affair with her husband's handsome yet distant business partner Mark. Upon crossing paths with sweet, socially awkward waiter Kuan, Zoe ponders giving up the limelight in favor of true love. Subsequently returning to Beijing to consider purchasing a lavish new home, wealthy Mark finds himself strangely taken with Xiao-Ye Jin, the slightly-older older real estate agent who carelessly breaks her foot during the grand tour. When Mark offers assist her by giving her son a ride, he senses a substance that's been missing from his pampered life, and begins to wonder f he may have been looking for love in all the wrong places. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi