This Is Not A Love Story

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This Is Not A Love Story - 2003


Loose Unit Productions - 80 min.
DVD UPC # 942101637030; 9318500017031; 931850001704

Cast: Sarah Smutz-Kennedy, Stephen Lovatt, Peta Rutter, Beryl Te Wiata, Steilios Yiakmis, Peter Elliott. Screenplay: Keith Hill; Director of Photography: Phil Burchell; Music: Steve Garden; Editing: Keith Hill; Costume Design: Fiona Nichols; Production Design: Cath Enchmarch; Producer: Andrew Calder, Keith Hill; Director: Keith Hill.

In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.

Censor Rating: M - Review rating: C+


AVAILABILITY OF VHS OR DVD COPIES

The DVD is an R0 PAL 1.80 widescreen and in dolby 5.1 English. The DVD also includes extras of a commentary by Keith Hill and Sarah Smutz-Kennedy; a 'Behind the Scenes' 22 min.featurette; and two other featurettes - 'Developing The Script'(27 min.) and "Making A Low Budget Feature" (20 min.). Also included are three short films by Keith Hill: 'The Good Neighbour'(12 min.), 'Blue Kisses' (4 min.), 'The Story Of An Uneasy Man' (12 min.). No sources yet for NTSC DVD copies. New VHS PAL copies are available for about $25nz. R0 PAL DVDs are available from NZ for about $20nz or Australia for $12au. There is no R1 ntsc version.



SOUNDTRACK ON AUDIO CD

No known soundtrack CD of this title.

Link to soundtrack sample download



TRAILER & REVIEWS

Opening credits video with commentary

Information at IMDB

Listener Review

Four Word Film Review

Robert Koehler Variety Review

Case Study report at TechLink


OFFLINE REVIEW SOURCES

Listener, v.190no.3308(Oct.4 2003), p.65
Sight and sound, v.13, issue 11(Nov.2003), p.63


MISC

Keith Hill talks about his debut feature to OnFilm Magazine

NZ National Business Review article



AWARDS

2002 - 'Dances With Films' festival - Best Screenplay.




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