LOVE ME DO

North American Premiere

LOVE ME DO is not your everyday love story. It's a story about love stories, and about the possibility-or impossibility-of love itself. This insightful, offbeat and rigorously structured film combines three distinct narrative threads to achieve a kind of gestalt understanding of its ambitious subject.

As the film progresses, the disparate segments build on one another and evolve into a complex inquiry into the nature of love. In interviews, nine individuals (three couples and three singles) recount their experiences with love and relationships. They run the gamut from an idealistic young couple, Irmi and Philipp, to gruff Heinz-Karl, a recent widower scanning personal ads for a new partner. A clever re-imagining of "expert testimony" features sequences with a philosopher, a psychoanalyst, a lawyer, a mathematician and a neurobiologist who all relate what these respective disciplines have to say about the phenomenon called love. An enthusiastic "puppeteer," in a series of odd performances, re-enacts romantic vignettes from German drama using a set of shopworn squeaky toys.

Moments of comedy, introspection and pathos play against the puppeteer's frenetic performances: Philipp, contemplating the tattoo of Irmi's name on his arm, jokes that if they break up he will have to find another partner with the same name; Horst, unlucky in love, demonstrates his strange "hand-caressing machine" which comforts him when he is lonely. These and other curiosities await in Christiane Voss and Katja Dringenberg's moving and provocative film.

-Paul Meyers

DIRECTOR BIOS
Christiane Voss spent time as a freelance journalist in the cinema editorial department of Fernsehen aus Berlin, TAZ, Berliner Zeitung, Radio SFB, Frauen und Film and Deutsche Lehrerzeitung. She co-authored the screenplay DEADLY MARIA, which was directed by Tom Tykwer. She worked on a dissertation at Freie UniversitŠt, Berlin, concerning "philosophical theories of emotions."

Katja Dringenberg is a German-born filmmaker. Her documentaries include KINDHEIT HINTER DRAHT, a documentary about Maguerite Duras, BLAUE AUGEN SCHWARZES HAAR and the feature film script ENDLICH.

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