Taglines: The thing started when everything was over.
Philip (Pierce Brosnan), an Englishman living in Denmark, is a lonely, middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida (Kim Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness, who’s just been left by her husband for a younger woman, Thilde.
The fates of these two bruised souls are about to intertwine, as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip’s son and Ida’s daughter. With warmth, affection and confidence, Susanne Bier has shaken a cocktail of love, loss, absurdity, humor, and delicately drawn characters that will leave only the hardest heart untouched. It is a film about the simple yet profound pains and joys of moving on – and forward – with your life.
Love Is All You Need is a Danish romantic comedy film directed by Susanne Bier and starring Pierce Brosnan, Kim Bodnia, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Jessen.
About the Story (2013)
Hairdresser Ida, who has recently ended a successful breast cancer treatment, returns home to find her husband Leif cheating on her. At the same time, her daughter is getting married in an Italian villa with a lemon orchard in a few days, and on the way there she runs into Philip, the groom’s father.
At the wedding, which is eventually called off when the putative bride and groom find that they are not, after all, right for one another, Ida and Philip develop an attraction. On their return to Denmark, Philip decides to reduce his workload and move permanently to Italy. He finds Ida at the hairdressing salon where she works, only to be rebuffed as she has returned to Leif. But Ida then has second thoughts and goes to Italy to be with Philip.
The southern Italian scenes were shot in Sorrento and on the Amalfi Coast. The film’s soundtrack features multiple versions of the song “That’s Amore”. In 2013, Love Is All You Need was selected as best comedy film at the 26th European Film Awards.
Love Is All You Need (2013)
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Kim Bodnia, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Jessen
Screenplay by: Anders Thomas Jensen, Susanne Bier
Production Design by: Peter Grant
Cinematography by: Morten Søborg
Film Editing by: Pernille Bech Christensen, Morten Egholm
Costume Design by: Signe Sejlund
Art Direction by: Tamara Marini
Music by: Johan Söderqvist
MPAA Rating: R for brief sexuality, nudity and some language.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: May 3, 2013
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