Stockholm Film Festival

Strange Fits of Passion is a contemporary, anti-romantic comedy about a young woman on a desperate hunt for someone to whom she can lose her virginity. She has developed a fixation with romantic poetry due to her work in a second hand-bookshop, although her conviction is that romance is just a patriarchal dodge to keep women in restraint. Her idealistic Wordsworth-dreams are nevertheless hard to combine with the tangible reality. Between her efforts with different partners (among them the politically correct post-modern poet Josh and Pablo, a Spanish teacher and Latin lover) she finds support in Jimmy, who follows her romantic adventures. Jimmy is the only person that she has real contact with, and the only one she can take seriously. Strange Fits of Passion is an evolving story seen from a female perspective. She, as the lead character is called, is neither a heroine nor a victim. She is on the whole a more complex character than is usual for young women on film.

Premiärstatus

Skandinavisk premiär

Medverkande

Michela Noonan, Mitchell Butel

Producent

Lucy Maclaren

Manus

Elise McCredie

Foto

Jaems Grant

Talat språk

English

 

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