At the beginning of the documentary, fine artist Jan Montyn is lying in bed, stripped to the waist. The blades of a fan are spinning; war footage is projected across. In 1944, Montyn enrolled in the German navy and ended up on the eastern front. He shows drawings he made in the trenches with charcoal and toothpaste. Back in Holland, he was hospitalised with 'shell shock'. Nevertheless, later on he would fight the communists in Korea and work as a relief worker in Vietnam and Cambodia. The film crew follows him back to Vietnam, a country where he first arrived in the early seventies: 'Sometimes, I try to convert the horror to paradise.' And now he is sailing on a river, surrounded by dancing young women. But we also see him at work and breathe down his neck when he is etching and engraving. He looks back on his life without a guilty conscience or shame. 'Many wars, many women, many etches', could be his epitaph, the voice-over says.
Love Me or Leave Me has generally received very positive reviews.
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Love Me or Leave Me was released in 2005 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 50 reviews, giving Love Me or Leave Me (2005) an average rating of 75%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 77%.
With a score of 75%, Love Me or Leave Me is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2005, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2005 with similar scores include films like A History of Violence, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and The Constant Gardener.
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