Project Detail

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 project: 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

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Footprint Films

www.footprintfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

Celluloid Dreams

2 Rue Turgot, 75009 Paris, France

+33 1 49 70 03 70

hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com

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www.celluloid-dreams.com

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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