Unrequited Love

Film Information:
Year:

2006

Unrequited Love

Países:

  

Director:

Chris Petit

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

76 min

Production:

    Contact:

    • Contacto / Contact
    • Illuminations Films
    • Keith Griffiths
    • 187 Beach Street
    • CT14 6LY Deal, England
    • T +44 1304 371 625
    • +44 7773 374 431
    • F +44 1304 389 751
    • E griff@illuminationsfilms.co.uk

    Synopsis

    Based on a memoir by an English academic on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities: a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and how modern surveillance technology defines the urban stalker as it does the new terrorist. Their methods duplicate: irrational and targeted –a black Valentine. Unrequited Love pushes the boundaries of documentary and interrogates the process of literary adaptation in its storytelling and style, with eerie and disturbing examples of the changing landscapes we inhabit, both internal and external. It shows how romanticism is bound to become radicalised in a world conditioned by invasions of privacy and consumer appetite, and the roles of denial and self-delusion and their necessity to our existence.

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