No theatrical release. No festival run. Just VCDs passed hand-to-hand in 2005, then ripped, compressed, and resurrected by a lone subtitle artist known only as — who added the “Sub Indo Exclusive” stamp, complete with a pixelated blue bird watermark.
Upon its release, How Much Do You Love Me? polarized critics. While some praised its daring style and Bellucci’s magnetic performance, others found its narrative disjointed and its male-female dynamics outdated. One review describes it as “wayward in its logic, poorly constructed in its narrative and puts back male-female relations thirty years”. However, others found beauty in its boldness, noting that “the life is surprisingly wonderful, love is the mystery” and that Bellucci is “a full joy, a daydream for all the middle aged, insignificant men searching for a reason to dream”.