Eros (bluray) slipcase version

EROS (2004) is an anthology film composed of three thematically linked segments by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni, each exploring different facets of desire, fantasy, and the uneasy borders between intimacy and alienation.

Though varied in tone and style, the films trace a loose arc from private longing to psychological projection to abstract eroticism.

The opening segment, Wong Kar Wai’s “THE HAND,” is the emotional core of the film—a lush, melancholic tale set in 1960s Hong Kong. It follows Zhang (Chang Chen), a shy tailor’s apprentice, whose life becomes intertwined with Miss Hua (Gong Li), a glamorous but fading call girl. Through a series of encounters defined by ritual and restraint, Zhang develops a devotion that outlasts Miss Hua’s decline, transforming his longing into a lifelong ache. Wong imbues their story with tactile intimacy and visual poetry, using gestures—the brush of a hand, the drape of a dress—to evoke deeper emotional truths.

Soderbergh’s “EQUILIBRIUM” shifts to wry, neurotic comedy as a stressed-out ad executive (Robert Downey Jr.) seeks help for erotic dreams he cannot control, while Antonioni’s “THE DANGEROUS THREAD OF THINGS” ventures into symbolic abstraction, charting the fractures within a dissolving romance.

Together, the segments form an uneven yet intriguing meditation on the many shapes of desire.