Rachel Morrison's second film as director follows a young nurse, bereaved during the global pandemic, as she grieves, escapes and returns to herself.
By Guy Lodge
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Amazon MGM Studios It would probably be glib to refer to “Love of Your Life” as “Grieve Pray Love.” Rachel Morrison‘s film about COVID-era loss, recovery and renewal is serious in intent and earnest in execution, grounded by a performance of intelligence and emotional transparency by Margaret Qualley, and doesn’t deserve that kind of easy dismissal. But the temptation is there. It’s hard not to think a little bit of Elizabeth Gilbert’s globe-trotting memoir “Eat Pray Love,” the epitome of breezy Noughties self-help entertainment, not to mention Ryan Murphy’s vapid, glowingly shot film adaptation, when watching this story of a bereaved young woman’s long-term recuperation via perfectly picturesque travels in Lisbon, London, Tokyo and beyond. There’s certainly much to be said for literal escape as a healing strategy, but Morrison’s permanently luminous film too often feels like a magazine spread about that process.
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