Love is All

Invited

This romantic whirl through the British archives captures love and courtship in the 20th century. Compiled from over 75 fiction films, documentaries, home movies, and newsreels, Love is All is a kaleidoscopic montage of clips, set to a brooding score by songwriter Richard Hawley. From first kisses to free love, interracial dating to same-sex marriage, the film winds elliptically through images of romance, lust, heartbreak, and social connection, hinting at both evolving cultural mores and the universality of fundamental human emotions. Scenes from lesser-known British silent movies and more recognizable contemporary works like My Beautiful Laundrette and Brick Lane also converge to provide a lesson in film history and evolving cinematic techniques. Kim Longinotto has plumbed the British Film Institute and Yorkshire Film Archive to create a mostly wordless, altogether delightful, supercut of seduction, rejection, and transgression that will appeal to Anglophiles, cinephiles, and lovers of romance alike.  EM

Director

Kim Longinotto

Producers

Mark Atkin, Heather Croall, Martin Rosenbaum

Editor

Ollie Huddleston

Cinematographer

Kim Longinotto

Release Year

2014

Festival Year

2015

Country

United Kingdom

Run Time

70 minutes

Premiere

US Premiere