Project Detail

Kiss Of Life

Synopsis

This is a love story, not Helen and Joe, but the whole family. Helen (late 30s) is wife, mother and daughter and, on the morning we meet her, is killed in a road accident. But Helen doesn't know she is dead, and neither does her husband, Joe, who is a truck driver travelling home to London from war-torn Eastern Europe. The film charts the four-day odyssey of the family until Joe's return: the children and Grandpa at home struggling with what has happened, Joe over scary and unpredictable terrain and Helen through limbo to the moment when she and Joe finally reconcile their love and she is free to leave in peace. In the tragedy comes the seed of hope for the future.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: 35mm, Fuji
Director: Emily Young
Editor: David Charrap
Screenwriter: Emily Young
Sound: Ron Bailey
Principal cast: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Peter Mullan, David Warner

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Wild Horses Film Company Ltd

131 Kilburn Park Road,
London
NW6 5LD
T/F 44 (0)20 7625 1276

wildhorsesfilms@aol.com

Sales Company

Celluloid Dreams

2 Rue Turgot
75009 Paris, France

T 33 1 49 70 09 85

hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com

Visit Website

www.celluloid-dreams.com

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