"The beauty and sensuality of the film make the best plea against puritanism."-Le MondeThe story of a young wife's infidelity is told as a triptych, each retelling switching victims and victimizers so that easy moral judgments become as elusive as the narrative itself. In the first episode, the woman and her lover, a pretty-faced shoeshine boy, meet discreetly in a seaside graveyard but are spied upon by an old man. The husband, a dark-mustachioed taxi driver, is informed, kills the lover, and is sentenced to an execution of his own choosing. In the second, the boy of the first story is now the husband, the dark-haired man the lover; and in the third, we are back to the first configuration, but much evolved. Filmed with great inventiveness and what can only be called an indulgence for beauty, Time of Love illustrates Makhmalbaf's statement, "My style is inspired by the Koran, insofar as it moves from realism to surrealism." Shot in Turkey to avoid censorship problems, the film was banned for five years.