Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship

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Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship

2014

1h 14m

Documentary

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Kim Longinotto celebrates cinema with extracts from movies.

Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Like many found-footage assemblages, this is superficially rather charming but lacking in a central thesis. The music, however, is gorgeous.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 17, 2015

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

The tone is playful and lyrical. Longinotto doesn't resort to voiceovers or interviews. Instead, she uses Richard Hawley's wonderfully dreamy music to bring out the underlying themes.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 17, 2015

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

As we watch (and listen), we are swept away on a tide of changing social attitudes to race, gender and sexuality, the singularity of love splintered into kaleidoscopic reflections of desire and devotion.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 15, 2015

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Pamela Hutchinson

Silent London

It's a wisp of a film, maybe, but a wonderful experiment -- a curiously intimate use of public footage, which is bound to trigger your own imagination, and your most cherished memories too.

Mar 27, 2020

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Tom Birchenough

The Arts Desk

Just immerse yourself in Love Is All for its 70 minutes, and it will flow over and around you gloriously.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 22, 2017

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Allan Hunter

Daily Express (UK)

In truth some of the clips are not that remarkable but what really makes them resonant is the dreamy, seductive music of Richard Hawley who adds shades of melancholy and wistfulness to all these moments of lost loves and young dreams.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 13, 2015

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A mix of fiction, reportage and documentary from the BFI Archive, soundtracked by Richard Hawley. I was apprehensive that this would be little more than an extended music video. However it does successfully draw you into each montage or mini-story. The films are often striking and the historicity always fascinating.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Director

Mark Atkin

Producer

Heather Croall

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Martin Rosenbaum

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Richard Hawley

Original Music

Ollie Huddleston

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Synopsis

Kim Longinotto celebrates cinema with extracts from movies.

Director: Kim Longinotto
Producer: Mark Atkin, Heather Croall, Martin Rosenbaum
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 14m