A Labor of 'Romance' -- Day in the Life of Women
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › July 04, 2011
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"The Romance of Loneliness" takes place over 24 hours and was shot in 19 days, but its compact narrative and brisk production schedule are misleading: The intimate yet ambitious movie represents a five-years-in-the-making passion project for its co-directors, Sarah Ledbetter and Matteo Servente of Memphis.
"We've sacrificed practically everything we have for this," said Ledbetter, 35, a dancer, actor, St. Mary's Episcopal School graduate and Northwestern University performance studies major who was living in New York when the shock of 9/11 filled her with a sense of urgency and inspired her to explore a risky new avenue of artistic expression: filmmaking.See the full content of this document
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A Labor of 'Romance' -- Day in the Life of Women
The current result is "The Romance of Loneliness," which this past week moved into the editing stage. "For more than 4 1/2 years, closer to five, we've been living to make this film," said Servente, 36, a native of Turin , Italy, who met Ledbetter during a New York Film Academy workshop in Paris (France, that is).
Ledbetter and Servente might be identified as "New Traditionalists," to...See the full content of this document
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