Ways
To Leave Your Lover
How
many of us have thought about it, lost sleep over it, chickened
out of it, sweated over it, practically bitten our nails to the
bone over it and made ourselves sick over it? The answer is, at
one time or another, most of us will experience the agony of trying
to find a way to leave a lover.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
TWO tells us how it's done in a series of five films starring Douglas
Henshall, Emma Fielding, and Kate Ashfield amongst others.
Themes
of love, infidelity and the end of an affair are explored in Ways
To Leave Your Lover, five films written and directed by
some of the UK's most talented artists.
Sweetnightgoodheart,
Unscrew, Stag, Dog and Dumping Elaine each take an uncompromising
look at what happens to people at the moment they leave each other
and the ramifications of individual actions as relationships fall
apart.
Taken
as a whole the films are a harsh and viciously funny exploration
of the human condition and the nature of love and loss.
Each
writer/ director has proven his or her worth in a variety of different
fields, and each 10 minute short film serves to reinforce the fierce
talent and versatility of Dan Zeff (Linda Green, At ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ With The
Braithwaites), Clara Glynn (Ichmein), Ian Iqbal Rashid (This Life),
Andrea Arnold and Peter Lydon (Hearts and Bones, Teachers).
From
Sundance to Venice, each film has trodden the path of the festival
circuit and each comes home in the wake of considerable critical
acclaim.
Jeremy
Howe, Executive Producer, said: "Mention the title Ways To
Leave Your Lover and I would guess that a fleeting moment of recollection
and then probably guilt will pass across the face of whoever you
are with.
"We've
all done it badly - and here are five short films that catch that
awful, funny, painful ridiculous moment. The five writers / directors
have all responded to the title in different ways - farcically,
bizarrely, unexpectedly, disturbingly and optimistically. We have
all been there."
Hilary
Salmon, Executive Producer said: "The directors' imaginations
were stimulated by the sheer drama innate in the series title. The
result is five dramatic gems in miniature."
David
Thompson, Head of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Films and Executive Producer said: "Ways
To Leave Your Lover is a real testament to the wealth of talent
at work in this country today, with each short demonstraing the
diversity and individuality of the writers and directors involved
in this project."
Ways
To Leave Your Lover. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TWO, Tuesday 25 March 2003, 11.20pm-12.10am
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