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What Is This Film Called Love?

Original title: What Is This Film Called Love?
Year: 2012
Running time: 77 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Mark Cousins
Screenwriter: Mark Cousins
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Mark Cousins
Producer: Mark Cousins
Genre: Documentary | Movie Documentary
Synopsis: What is this film called Love? is a passionate, 77 minute poetic documentary about the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico over three days, for just £10, it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape and the pleasures of walking. It is a personal film and aims to be very cinematic, using three visual dream sequences, and the music of PJ Harvey, Simon Fisher Turner, Johnny Cash and Bernard Hermann. The film draws from a range of filmmakers and writers – principally Chris Marker, but also Virginia Woolf, Frank O’Hara and others – but aims to touch on themes that are relevant to a wide range of people – where joy comes from, the emotions involved with travel and homecoming, and the nature of solitude.

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