sau wrote:
Official site now up. The film is going to be shown at this year's Edinburgh Festival:
http://whatisthisfilmcalledlove.co.uk/Mark's comments on Polly. From the Patron Saints section:
'Like many people with ears and a heart, I’ve been shaken, touched, haunted by PJ Harvey’s music over the years. A while ago she was kind enough to say some things about one of my films, The First Movie, about children and creativity in Kurdish Iraq. We started to communicate, I sent her some films, and then Timo and I used one of her songs to which to edit our rough cut.
And, as sometimes happens, we fell in love with the song. So I wrote to PJ Harvey, sending her the film…she not only gave us permission to use the track, but sent us two more, one of which sounds as if it was written for the film, but wasn’t.
The director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival told me, in an email, that there’s anxiety in this film. I think part of it comes from PJ Harvey’s music. This is a film of sunlight and storm clouds. Harvey’s music brings on the clouds. There’s something tenebrous about being middle aged, about watching life whizz past like a yellow ribbon on a fence (watch the film and you’ll get this reference!). I’ve never felt more alive than I do now, nor happier, and yet so much of life feels like leaving. Maybe that’s because friends have died, or because I’ve travelled so much, or because memories are so vivid and touching. What I know is that as well as the will to dance in the middle of one’s life, there’s the desire to howl at all that leaving. PJ Harvey, you helped this film howl.'