Screenplay:
Ate de JongCinematography:
Zoran VeljkovicCast:
Lydia Wilson, Ellie Kendrick, Juliet Stevenson, Johnny Flynn, Al Weaver, Henry Goodman, Jessica Gunning, Matt Barber, Alex Lanipekun, Sharon Morgan, Luke Neal (more)VOD (3)
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A tale as old as time, or at least as old as Shakespeare: star-crossed lovers, bound by passion and creative ambition, pulled apart by religion, culture, socio-economics - and a broken jar of peanut butter. Arthur and Vida (the amazingly photogenic Johnny Flynn and Lydia Wilson) are young Londoners tumbling headlong into all-consuming love, attracted by their mutual free-spiritedness and boundless sense of possibility. But Vida's upper-middle class, Jewish intellectual upbringing clashes with Arthur's Welsh, working-class roots, and soon their myriad differences threaten to pull them apart. A timely tale of modern, multi-cultural European romance, Love Is Thicker Than Water provides a charming showcase for its two appealing leads, notably Flynn (The Lotus Eaters), in real life a folk-singing South African heartthrob and UK sensation. Whimsical animated interludes and a soulful folk score (supervised by Flynn) add another level of buoyancy to this memorable and deeply relatable romance. (Mill Valley Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Lydia Wilson
UK
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Ellie Kendrick
UK
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Juliet Stevenson
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South Africa
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Al Weaver
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Henry Goodman
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Jessica Gunning
UK
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Matt Barber
UK
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UK
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UK
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Luke Neal
UK
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Daniel Eghan
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Phelim Kelly
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Robert Blythe
UK
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Edward Akrout
France
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