Love You More

United Kingdom

2008

15 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Caroline Harvey, Patrick Marber, Anthony Minghella, Adrian Sturges, Sam Taylor Wood

CAST Harry Treadaway, Andrea Riseborough, Samuel Roukin, Paul Ritter, Pete Shelley, Harriet Ashcroft, Alex Kelly

PROD DES Alice Normington

Cannes (Shorts), Stockholm (Short Film Competition)

Synopsis

Summer, 1978. London.

Georgia sits in a Geography class covering her exercise book with graffiti. Her classmate Peter watches her with longing. Georgia turns and catches him – but ignores his gaze. After school Peter goes to the local record shop to buy the new Buzzcocks single, Love You More. It’s the day of its release and he’s desperate to own it. As he’s flicking through the rack of ‘New Releases’ Georgia comes in. She’s after the same record… But there’s only one copy. And Peter’s got it. Georgia quizzes him on Buzzcocks. She’s quietly impressed that this seeming geek knows his stuff. But there’s still only one copy. Georgia slips it into Peter’s school bag and they hurry out. In the street she invites him to listen to the stolen record with her. He hesitates and admits he’s supposed to be going straight home. Georgia laughs and leads him to her place – a flat above a pub. They go to her bedroom and listen to the song. It’s loud and quick and it ends suddenly. Georgia throws herself at Peter and they devour each other; a frenzy of skin and limbs, the energy of the music propelling them into losing their virginities. Georgia walks Peter home. Peter wants to know if she’ll continue to ignore him at school. Georgia says, ’Don’t be poxy’. They kiss, tenderly. Peter watches Georgia depart. He’s madly in love. Georgia walks away from him. A nervous look in her eyes. Perhaps she will never love him more than she did today… —britfilms.com

Director

Sam Taylor Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood (born March 4, 1967) is an English filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist. Her directorial feature film debut was the 2009 Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.

Taylor-Wood began exhibiting fine art photography of young fruitful men in the early-1990s. One collaboration with Henry Bond, titled 26 October 1993, featured Bond and Taylor-Wood pastiching the roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in the manner of the photo-portrait made—by photographer Annie Leibovitz—a few hours before Lennon was assassinated, in 1980. In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of Taylor-Wood’s work. Beginning with the video works Travesty of a Mockery and Pent-Up in 1996. Taylor-Wood was nominated for the annual Turner Prize in 1997, but… read more

Sam Taylor-Wood (born March 4, 1967) is an English filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist. Her directorial feature film debut was the 2009 Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon.

Taylor-Wood began exhibiting fine art photography of young fruitful men in the early-1990s. One collaboration with Henry Bond, titled 26 October 1993, featured Bond and Taylor-Wood pastiching the roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in the manner of the photo-portrait made—by photographer Annie Leibovitz—a few hours before Lennon was assassinated, in 1980. In 1994, she exhibited a multi-screen video work titled Killing Time, in which four people mimed to an opera score. From that point multi-screen video works became the main focus of Taylor-Wood’s work. Beginning with the video works Travesty of a Mockery and Pent-Up in 1996. Taylor-Wood was nominated for the annual Turner Prize in 1997, but lost out to fellow YBA artist Gillian Wearing. She won the Illy Café Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2002, Taylor-Wood was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to make a video portrait of David Beckham—whom she depicted sleeping.

In 2008, Taylor-Wood directed a short film Love You More, written by Patrick Marber and produced by Anthony Minghella. The film includes two songs by Buzzcocks and features a cameo appearance by the band’s lead singer Pete Shelley. In February 2009, Sam Taylor-Wood, collaborating with Sky Arts chose to interpret Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci. She commented: “I’m really happy to be involved in such a great project. I think by capturing one of opera’s most moving moments in a film short, we have put a modern spin on the aria.”

In August 2008, Taylor-Wood was chosen to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic about the childhood of The Beatles singer, John Lennon. The 53rd annual London Film Festival screened the film as its closing presentation on 29 October 2009. The film was released in the UK on Boxing Day, 2009. Charles Gant, writing in The Guardian—three weeks after the film’s national release—said that the film had “extremely disappointing receipts.” Taylor-Wood was nominated for a BAFTA award on 21 January 2010, but lost out to Duncan Jones. –Wikipedia

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