Eros

Pros: Wong Kar Wai's "The Hand"

Cons: Together, three episodes don't add up to weigh much; Antonioni's chapter weak

The Bottom Line: EROS, a trilogy of short films from the celebrated likes of Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo Antonioni, stumbles along the way to portraying fleeting moments of eroticism

Review: "Never touched a woman before," she asks demurely, knowingly, "have you?" She is Miss Hua, a courtesan in 1960s Hong Kong. He is Zhang, a young tailor's apprentice hired to fit her for beautifully ornate costumes. One quickly surmises that not only is ...

Pros: Li Gong and Chen Chang

Cons: especially the Antonioni movie

The Bottom Line: The Soderberg segment is mildly amusing, the Wong segment somewhat erotic, the Antonioni an outright embarrassment.

Review: "Eros" (2004) combines a mildly entertaining black-and-white short sarcastically titled "Equilibirum" by Steven Soderberg involving Nick (Robert Downey, Jr.), as a troubled 1950s New York advertising executive with a recurrent dream about a woman in a ...