For Love Alone

For Love Alone (1986)

Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.

Date of release
1986-05-22
TMDB
3.7 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Stephen Wallace

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$193K
  • Filmed in: Sydney
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 5

For Love Alone is a 1986 Australian film directed by Stephen Wallace, and starring Helen Buday, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill. The screenplay was written by Wallace, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Christina Stead. It marked Naomi Watts' film debut. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

Production

The film was a pet project for producer Margaret Fink who took six years to raise finance. The bulk of the money came from a pre-sale to Greater Union and from UA. Fink had been impressed by Stir and asked Stephen Wallace to direct.

Fay Weldon wrote some early drafts but neither Fink or Wallace were happy with them so Wallace did the adaptation himself. Wallace says it took him three and a half years to write the script.

Peter Strauss was originally cast to play James Quick but was replaced by Sam Neill. Geneviève Picot was tentatively cast in the lead role but it took two years to raise the money by which time it was felt she was too old so she was replaced by Helen Buday, who had only made one film previously.

Most of the movie was shot in Sydney starting in March 1985 with a four-day shoot at Oxford University.

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