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Love of Your Life

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Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life--one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.
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A winsome travelogue enlivened by Margaret Qualley's terrific performance, Love of Your Life is an attractive drama that finds the grace notes in heartbreak.

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Wenlei Ma The Nightly (AU) Oct 19, 2026
3.5/5
Love of Your Life is a tender and emotionally mature portrait of love, loss, grief and forgiveness. Go to Full Review
Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Oct 15, 2026
3/4
This film succeeds because of Qualley’s mercurial and tone-rich performance, the gorgeous cinematography from Todd Banhazl and a nuanced protagonist confronting both exterior and interior hardships. Go to Full Review
Natalia Winkelman New York Times Oct 15, 2026
Manipulation is a given in this brand of weepie, as essential to the formula as martyrdom. If love means never having to say you’re sorry, I won’t apologize for blubbering through this movie. Go to Full Review
Louisa Moore Screen Zealots 5 days ago
A beautiful, deeply sad film that understands grief is more than missing someone. Sometimes it’s mourning the life you imagined you could have had, and fearing that moving forward means leaving that life behind. Go to Full Review
John Stark Mac the Movie Guy 6 days ago
78/100
Genuinely worth your time. Margaret Qualley delivers an excellent performance. Go to Full Review
Tyler Strandberg Pop Culture Leftovers 6 days ago
For the average viewer, Love of Your Life is ultimately a serviceable romantic drama, more likely to occupy two hours of your time than leave much of a lasting emotional impact. Go to Full Review
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Kara M @RT81702352 7 hrs ago As someone who equates life to physics and chemistry, I love this movie. The music on the the cassette leads her towards him, and as her grief fades, the iron oxide on that cassette fades ....until she can only hear white noise. Maybe this is how long it takes us to grieve, and the length of our grief is determined on how often we revisit our memory of them. I absolutely loved this film. I'm not normally a romance fan, but this film seemed real, with both feet planted. See more R T @RT42604030 10 hrs ago This was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Not at any moment was there any tension or sense of reality. Near the end I assumed it was created by AI and the characters, all of whom were chosen from Love Island suddenly evaporated. The film shirt on Insta was masterful in making the film seem moving and poignant, yet it was just awful. See more Danny T @RT99558199 14 hrs ago The 64% audience rating on this fine movie is so disappointing. One can't help but wonder if all people want today are explosions every few minutes or superheroes flying through a world of CGI. When a drama actually does try to explore human emotions it's often dismissed as a schlocky tear-jerker. However, for those people who still appreciate stories of genuine human emotion and experience, and themes such as love, grief and redemption, this movie will not disappoint. It's beautifully directed, acted and photographed. Margaret Qualley's career has been gaining steam for several years now but I don't know if she's ever played a role as demanding as this one and performed it so beautifully. She is wonderful and heartbreaking in this film. This is a movie well worth watching. Sad, yes. But so much more substantial than most of what passes for cinema these days. See more Carolyn C @callie5430 21 hrs ago Way too slow See more JUAN ALEJANDRO O @RT54916223 1 day ago I really think this movie is the only romance movie, I like and will ever like. To me that’s crossing limits See more Alison H @RT09483907 3 days ago This is such a sweet film which looks at some difficult topics. I actually loved it. So many sad moments and then some great ones. Recommend for a day when you aren’t feeling too emotional! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life--one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.
Director
Rachel Morrison
Producer
Ryan Gosling, Jessie Henderson
Screenwriter
Julia Cox
Distributor
Amazon MGM Studios
Production Co
Open Invite Films
Rating
R (Brief Nudity|Some Sexuality)
Genre
Romance, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 7, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 14, 2026
Runtime
1h 46m
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