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This is Not a Love Song

Synopsis

Spike and Heaton are the unlikeliest pair. Taciturn, competent, unreadable, Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast, his side-kick Spike is manic, child-like, unstoppable: someone we are instinctively afraid for. But when Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton stands by him. There begins a chase across a vast Northern landscape of moors, rivers and dark woods, the increasingly exhausted fugitives being hunted not by the police but by a posse of farmers intent on revenge. No ordinary chase film, This is Not a Love Song is a love story trapped inside the body of a thriller.

Details

Year
2003
Type of film
Features
Running time
91 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Bille Eltringham
Producer
Kate Ogborn, Paul Trijbits
Editor
Ewa Lind
Screenwriter
Simon Beaufoy
Director of Photography
Robbie Ryan
Sound
Rupert Ivey
Composer
Adrian Johnston, Mark Rutherford
Principal cast
Michael Colgan, Kenny Glenaan, David Bradley

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Footprint Films

www.footprintfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

Celluloid Dreams

2 Rue Turgot, 75009 Paris, France

hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com

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