The tale unfolds in England during the 1920s, where a gay writer and his nurse become romantically attached through the course of routine medical examinations. At one point one of them comes to her and explains how he had an elder companion, around whom they would circumvent, and after that how they would unleash their primal emotions which were manifest in violent physical outbursts.
Just ahead of its opening at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Memento International has picked up the rights to the romance drama Lilies Not for Me, directed by Will Seefried and featuring Fionn O’Shea, and Robert Aramayo.
The rising actors’ cast is completed by Erin Kellyman (Willow), Jodi Balfour (Ted Lasso, The Crown), and Louis Hofmann (Dark).
As a queer love story drama, Lilies Not for Me is about a gay novelist a psychiatric nurse, and their somewhere in between conquering love set in England during the 1920s.
The synopsis states, Through his reminiscences, he recollects how he had an old friend who was so close to him that they took drastic and extreme measures together in order to control their self destructive love for each other.
When it comes to features, Seefried is pretty much a rookie, and before that directed a short called Homesick which has been shown at SXSW 2022 and other festivals where it won multiple awards. The script for ‘Lilies Not for Me’ was a semi finalist at the Academy Nicholl Fellowship script competition in 2021.
A ‘sense of love overcomes the sense of fear’ says Lilies Not For Me’s director, describing the plot of the movie in his own words.
He further noted that the subject of this movie is based on a period in queer history that many people do not know about but is rather pertinent in today’s world and hopes to motivate people that let themselves be caused by the story to remember that self love is a revolutionary act. Seefried is repped by the UTA Independent Film Group.
As Memento International puts it, the movie titled ‘Lilies Not for Me’ shows how love can still blossom amidst sad circumstances, and thanks to its stellar cast offers the audience the viewing of a great story the clash between the joys of love and the societal roles which require so much courage to break free from.”
Apart from Lilies Not for Me, Memento International’s slate also includes Other Way Around, this one is the winner of the Directors’ Fortnight award and this is a Jonás Trueba movie, and Gazer, which is a psychological thriller from the U.S. by Ryah J.Sloan which is already been in discussions. At present, one more movie is there in the lineup which is Haifaa Al-Mansour’s upcoming movie “Unidentified” and it is still under production other include Emilie Blichfieldt’s The Ugly Stepsister, The Divine Sarah Bernhardt Guillaume Nicloux’s biopic and Arenas, a corporate thriller by Camille Perton which are at post production stage.
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