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Love where one finds it today and love as it might be found 30 years ago
concern two of the early out-of-competition films screened at the inaugural
Noosa Film Festival.
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Modern love in its various permutations is examined in David Kane's This
Year's Love, one of the British films in the Noosa programme; and
how love could sneak up and tap you on the shoulder, back when all eyes were
on Neil Armstrong, is the subject of one of the American offerings, Tony
Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon.
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If Viggo Mortensen was short of any female fans before, A Walk on the Moon
should remedy that. As a character with a "backwards"
name -- Walker Jerome -- Mortensen is "The Blouse Man", one of the mobile
pedlars who visit rural New York summer holiday cabins, bringing shopping to
the vacationing families. One such family is the Kantrowitzes: matriarch
Lilian (Tovah Feldshuh), her TV-repairman son Marty (Liev Schreiber), his
wife Pearl (Diane Lane), daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) and son Danny (Bobby
Boriello).
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Pearl Kantrowitz yearns for the life she feels passed her by, when she found
herself pregnant at 17 and thereafter Marty's stay-at-home wife. Marty,
too, senses that his life might have taken a different course. Enter The
Blouse Man: gorgeous, muscled, intensely romantic, the dream lover who won't
take no for an answer, and as foreign from Pearl's everyday existence as a
man from the moon. While Pearl thrills to forgotten feelings stirring
again, her 14-year-old daughter Alison is hit by them for the first time,
gaining a new sense of freedom as well as a boyfriend.
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Opportunity knocks for Pearl as the moon landing approaches and ensures her
husband's absence. With everyone wanting TVs in tip-top order to see
Armstrong walk on the moon, Marty is stuck in town and can't join his family
for the weekend. The die is cast when Pearl asks The Blouse Man what he's
doing for the moon landing; love blossoms in his mobile van, and the
pastoral idyll which follows takes them to Woodstock, and the eventual
showdowns with Alison and Marty.
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In the late nineties, strangers are still walking into women's hearts, but
the route can be a little different. For example, in This Year's Love,
dirty-haired demon lover and self-styled artist Cameron (Dougray
Scott) sometimes uses the lonely hearts ads to pick out likely prey. His
other technique is to tell women he'd like to paint them, on account of
their lovely bone structure. Cameron's "painting" consists of copies of
magazine illustrations which he sells at auction to get betting money and
finance his version of the playboy lifestyle.
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Cameron is one of the characters whose progressive dance of love is
choreographed by director/writer David Kane over several years against the
London setting of Camden Town. The others who meet, romance or quarrel,
split up, and meet anew, are Sophie (Jennifer Ehle), a Rodean girl who's now
a single mother living on a houseboat; Liverpudlian Liam (Ian Hart),
condemned to disastrous passions for women who are wrong for him; tattoo
artist Danny (Douglas Henshall), the break-up of whose half-hour marriage to
clothing designer Hannah (Catherine McCormack) begins the story; Heathrow
cleaner and singer Marey (Kathy Burke); and Alice (Emily Woof), who strikes
up a modern friendship with Hannah.
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With a background of writing and directing for television and the stage,
Kane brings wit and skilful control to his feature film debut, an often
outrageous comedy that was hugely enjoyed by its Noosa audience. Films
which scored with audiences at the Noosa Film
Festival are sure to receive media attention in the weeks following the
debut festival's close.
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Details
A Walk on the Moon, by Miramax Films/Village Roadshow 1999.
Director: Tony Goldwyn.
Screenplay: Pamela Gray.
Cinematographer: Anthony Richmond.
Production Designer: Dan Leigh.
Costume Designer: Jess Goldstein.
Cast: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Live Schreiber, Tovah Feldshuh, Anna Paquin.
This Year’s Love, by Beyond Films, 1999.
Director/writer: David Kane.
Cinematographer: Robert Alazraki.
Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood.
Costume Designer: Jill Taylor.
Cast: Kathy Burke, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Hart, Catherine McCormack, Dougray Scott, Emily Woof.
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Citation reference for this article
MLA style:
Shane Lewis. "Love Today and Yesterday: 'A Walk on the Moon' / 'This Year’s Love' (NFF #1)." M/C Reviews 6 Sep. 1999.
[your date of access] <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/love.html>.
Chicago style:
Shane Lewis, "Love Today and Yesterday: 'A Walk on the Moon' / 'This Year’s Love' (NFF #1)," M/C Reviews 6 Sep. 1999,
<http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/love.html> ([your date of access]).
APA style:
Shane Lewis. (1999) Love today and yesterday: 'A walk on the moon' / 'This year’s love' (NFF #1). M/C Reviews 6 Sep. 1999.
<http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/reviews/screen/love.html> ([your date of access]).
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