LOVE IS NOW

Australia, 2014, 96 minutes, Colour.
Eamon Farren, Clare van der Boom, Anna Torv, Dustin Clare, Chris Haywood, Heather Mitchell.
Directed by Jim Lounsberry.

Love is Now is a small-budget Australian film, filmed digitally with Nikon cameras which are featured during the film itself.

It is also a romance drama and a road movie.

Eamon Farren is Dean, a photographer, exhibiting his photos, who encounters Audrey, Clare van der Boom, and they decided to go travelling together, by bicycle, to pick fruit during the season. The countryside is beautifully photographed. Dean keeps a photographic chronicle of their journey and Audrey writes a journal.

There are many lyrical scenes, but also the beginnings of differences, squabbles, especially during the fruit picking with the range of characters doing the work, the shared accommodation, nights at the pubs, and Dean wary of Audrey spending a lot of time with James who she says it does not attract her.

The audience has to be alert as to the different times, the film framed by flashback, Dean and his journey, re-living it, remembering it, and his love for Audrey and his regrets.

1. An Australian romantic story? Universal? An American writer and perspective?

2. The city of Sydney, the city itself, the eastern suburbs, photography, galleries, flats? The musical score?

3. The countryside, the roads, the paddocks, the fruit, accommodation, the country town, the pubs, the mountains? Atmosphere?

4. The director, Digital, cameras – and the product placement?

5. The beauty of photography, in the city, in the country? Chronicling the journey?

6. Issues of time, memory, flashbacks, imagination, the past and present, the effect of experiences, reminiscence, re-living the journey, the love?

7. Dean, his life, background, Audrey, the gallery, life in the city, the travel, bikes, the adventures on the road, the fruit picking, the work, accommodation, the pub?

8. Audrey, her background, the attraction, in the city, the decision to travel, the bonding, keeping the journal? The photography?

9. The work, James, the men, the pub, the other fruit pickers, the interactions, characters? The squabbles? Dean and Audrey parting?

10. Ben, his role in the film, the work and the fruit, accommodation, discussions with Dean, memories of Audrey, the photo?

11. The nature of the journey, the repetition of the journey, the years between, life and death, love and memories?