Project Detail

A Time to Love (IL Tempo Dell' Amore)

Synopsis

Giacomo Campiotti's A Time To Love is a romantic drama spanning 100 years and three different couples. Ciaran Hinds and Juliet Aubrey star in the first episode as two lovers in colonial Africa during the Boer War, whose passionate love affair is frustrated by the conventions of the time. The film then skips to Nazi-occupied Paris, where the relationship between a young French woman and her Russian lover unravels because of her jealousy. Finally, in contemporary Italy, a young girl nurses a teenage boy back to health through her devotion.

Campiotti, whose debut Like Two Crocodiles won a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign film in 1995, employed unorthodox means to research his film. Keen to write about love, he asked first friends, then strangers - through a small ad in a newspaper - for stories about love. His only stipulation was that they be real. Sifting through the mountains of letters and notes he was sent, he realised that there were key moments that all the stories shared, which mirrored the seasons of the year. He then teamed up with Alexander Adabachian, with whom he co-wrote Like Two Crocodiles.

With financing in place from Italian, French and British sources and a European cast including Ciaran Hinds, Juliet Aubrey and Natacha Regnier, the film cranked up its staggered shoot in late 1998. It premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 1999.

Details

Year: 2000
Type of film: Features
Director: Giacomo Campiotti
Music: Giuseppe D’Onghia
Dir: Giacomo Campiotti. 2000. 35mm. 110mins. Prods: Leo Pescarolo, Judy Counihan, Cedomir Kolar. Scr: Giacomo Campiotti, Alexander Adabachian. DoP: Blasco Giurato. Prod des: Paolo Bizzari. Ed: Roberto Missiroli. Main cast: Ciaran Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Natacha Regnier, Ignazio Oliva, Natalia Piatti, Giuseppe Faraso, Sergio Rubini. Budget: $5m. Funding: RAI, Istituto Luce, StudioCanal, European Co-production Fund, Eurimages.

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

DAKOTA FILM 12a Newburgh Street London W1V 1LG Tel: (44) 20 7287 4329 Fax: (44) 20 7287 2303 BLUE CINEMATOGRAFICA Via Ovidio 32 00193 Rome, Italy Tel: (39) 06 68807901 Fax: (39) 06 68 807909 NOE FILMS 10 Rue Sainte Anastase 75003 Paris Tel: (33) 1 447 86380 Fax: (33) 1 427 71938

Sales Company

The Sales Co (44) 20 7434 9061 Territories sold: France, Italy, Sweden

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