A passionate, poetic documentary about the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico over three days, for £10, What is This Film Called Love begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using Eisenstein’s ideas, it opens up to look at memory, landscape and the pleasures of walking. A deeply personal film that uses three visual dream sequences and the music of PJ Harvey, Simon Fisher Turner, Johnny Cash and Bernard Herrmann. 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 including where joy comes from, the emotions involved with travel and homecoming, and the nature of solitude.
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