Flames of Passion
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flames of Passion |
| Original title | Flames of Passion |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Kwietniowski |
| script | Noël Coward , Richard Kwietniowski |
| production | Cheryl Farthing |
| music | Startled insects |
| camera | Oliver Curtis |
| occupation | |
Flames of Passion tries (according to the description of the distribution) a kind of adaptation of the David Lean classic Brief Encounter (1945), but as a short film and with two men.
However, the result has become something completely unique.
action
Two men meet in a dreary, English suburban train station on their daily way to work.
The story is broken down into the number of days of the week - and each day brings the two closer together, with one laying out signs that the other is eagerly looking for. It starts with a picture of a photo booth. The two working, sober middle-aged men in their correct two-parters make the impression of great sadness and loneliness at the beginning, and finally find themselves on the last day, lying in each other's arms, accompanied by a terrific film score (Startled Insects), in which " British Railway ”on the way to work.
The sober nature of the narrative, the tense search for the other in everyday life, the (use) of black and white film and the "average" of the main actors make the short film realistic and extremely appealing. It's an eighteen-minute invitation to look for your counterpart (if you haven't already found him), and those who haven't understood it by then will be confronted with an excerpt from Walt Whitman ’s poem "The Untold Want" in the credits :
"Now voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find!"
Awards
- Audience winner “Best Short Film” 1990 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Web links
- Flames of Passion in the Internet Movie Database (English)